Bristol

My War

I remember sitting out a number of raids there, one in particular sticks in my memory when there were...

ATC Kingswood, Bristol

And one day a recruiting officer arrived at Colern in a Fairey Fulmar. Armaments - 8 machine guns, 4 in...

Valerie Parry (Lintern) & John Parry

Both John and Valerie remember - Dried egg which was delicious could make fantastic omelletes with chopped...

Farmer Giles's Milk Bar

On the first big air raid on Sunday night November 24th 1940, I was waiting for a bus in the centre to...

Girl Power @ The Fishmarket

So, the "girls" stepped in and my mother Evelyn and Tom's wife Rose took over, although Mum was...

Lily Newick's Factory Story

Lily Newick remembers July 1941 when she started work at Canons Marsh, the old tobacco factory, which was...

The Last Bus to Old Sodbury

Well, the next day I got myself a job at the local aircraft factory and one day when I had gone home,...

Bombings Over Bristol

Ian's older brother had been dead for two days as the result of a concentrated German bombing raid on...

Pregnant in "Peacetime"

Whilst our house was being rebuilt after the bombing we lived with my Mother-in- Law. There were timed...

Bristol Wartime Entertainers

We'd get there in either normal vehicles or army trucks - that was until Mr Bennett persuaded the...

Bill Green's Story of VE Day

Although seriously undertrained, I flew Hurricanes with the Squadron in the Battle of Britain and in...

Childhood memories of wartime Bristol

At the top of Purdown between Muller Road and Ashley Down Station, was a large American army transport...

Surviving a Direct Hit in Bristol

Although we had been provided with an Anderson shelter in the back garden, only the day before, it was...

A Carpenter's Tale

I was called up in 1943 as a RAF carpenter and arrived in France six days after D-Day. We were on the...

Vivid Memories

The funny thing was it was supposed to be a safe place but on top of the Netham was an RAF station...

Meeting at Farmer Giles Milk Bar

On the first big air raid on Sunday night November 24th 1940, I was waiting for a bus in the centre to...

Six Fishponds Brothers in the Forces

My brother was in the Navy before the war started, his name was Gilbert but everybody called him George. My...

Babs from Bedminster

At night both Babs and her brother came home from work to their home in Raleigh Road and had sandwiches...

Difficult Times as an Evacuee family and our Life in Dagenham by Lilly Reed

My mum said that they must have made a fortune on what they fed us, because they used to get about 7...

Blasts from the Blitz: Bristol 1941

My address at the time was Dorset Villas, Westbury on Trym, Bristol. I decided to remain in Bristol with my...

Family

One of my mother's memories, which annoyed her for her lifetime was the fact that when she went to...

Child Point of view

I was put to bed in the cupboard under the stairs every night just to be safe. My aunty Grace who was...

The Beginning of a New Era

I was in school during the war years in the Kingswood area and remember the first barrage balloon that went...

In Awe of a City in Flames

I quote my great uncle's report of that night's blitz: On November 24, 1940, one incendiary fell on...

Evacuation from Juan le Pins

We struggled on and made our way to the beaches, at Juan le Pins, near Dunkirk, during 1941. We never went...

Terry Southway's Early Memories of Bedminster during the War

In 1943I can remember living in Church Lane, Bedminster with my parents and personal events related to...