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A Civilian's War

The daylight raid on Cavendish Rd. was the most serious incident to be dealt with; rumours filtered through...

The Doodlebug

On this occasion the Editor asked me to go on this errand in my lunch hour, and so I went to Senate...

Connie Snow and Bletchley Park

To my surprise, as I had dome maths up to School Certificate, we were needed at a place called Bletchley...

My Life Apart: Chapter 1

My long-time friend Elaine Stevens worked for the B.B.C. who had come to Bristol from London as being a...

Memories of an evacuee to Cirencester from Barking, Essex.

Then the bombing started and the Scratons Farm estate where Elise lived was one of the first to be hit by a...

A shop-boy in South East London

We were on the roof cheering like anything because we thought it was an aeroplane being shot down, but in...

Three Bombs On Bath

Bath had three air raids within forty-eight hours in April 1942, which were thought of as reprisals for the...

A Schoolgirl in Wartime

We slept in it at night , being frequently woken by the drone of German bombers following their flight path...

The day war broke out.

And all that farting everytime yer breathe'. 'Well go on' said Mum, you know what you've...

When we copped it on Presburg Street

One night Maude and her son had a narrow escape from a doodlebug: Maude kept going down to the office and...

Childhood Memories of Pioneering Plastic Surgery

They had taken over a mental hospital at Basingstoke so they could operate away from London and the...

Bomb damaged homes in Hackney

Not long after the Blitz began Lillian's family home in Holmes Street, Haggerston was completely...

The war was a huge adventure for us children

My earliest memory of the war is being carried into the garden of our ground floor flat in Prince's...

Bashing Boxes Into Shape

When war broke out I was diverted by bus through the East End where I saw all the destruction created by...

Wartime Romance in the ATS

My father was still a clothier and I went to Leeds Girl's High School. The whole Company was marched...

Elderly Evacuees

From Grangemouth to Top Secret work at the War Office

The work involved doing recoding messages from all over the world to and from the War Office. All War...

The sailor who saved me

We lived in the lower ground floor flat of Gotham Villas, Water Lane, Twickenham with a lovely garden...

My first hop-picking

I attended school, Pluckley Church of England,The milkman also used to come along on a tricycle, he had...

VE DAY — MAY 1945

I had been asked to make the choice when, to mark this momentous occasion, the trip to London was planned...

And then I became a GI Bride!!

I got a job as a secretary at a charity — St Dunstan's for the Blind — based in Regents...

Night Light

As the bombing got worse,Grandad built bunks for us all in the cellar of the old Edwardian house and every...

Annies Time

He went through to Belgium, and was lucky to escape back to France, and was with some of the last lot of...

Memories of war in N.W.London

My family lived in College Road, Kensal Rise,N.W.London and I went to Princess Frederica School at the...

V.A.D. RN

I joined the Royal Navy as a V.A.D. and undertook part of my training in Barrowgurney, Bristol. I was in...

A schoolboy during WW2

My home during WW2 was in Ealing, West London... It was a memorable moment when the King invited our war...