London

Meeting Clark Gable

4k Norwegian French Belgian Dutch and UK sailors being trained 200 WRENS. Ack Ack next to pub guarding...

Enduring in South East London

Our offices were under the London Railway in the arches, and we had to work one Saturday in five, so you...

A Naval Nurse with artistic flair

Nurse… was seen wearing curlers off duty". This was not allowed. " Nurse … is not...

War at Sixteen

At home in a Acocks Green, on the outskirts of the city, we had an Anderson shelter in the garden and...

The Timber Corps

May 8th my mother, 2 sisters and I were banished to the cellar steps of our house in Sneinton because of...

reminiscences of a wren

I was drafted to Scotland —HMS MERLIN- a Fleet Air Arm Station, just north of the Forth Bridge,...

Isolated memories…barely glowing embers: addendum two

I called into Thames House and asked if it were possible to take a photo towards St Paul's from that...

FROM A QUIET TOWN TO EGYPT

My Uncle`s brother was also killed by machine gun fire whilst he was loading his Royal Mail van at the...

From Bath to Hampstead

After training in North Wales, I was attached to an Army unit - No 8 WOSB — and sent to Spedan Towers...

Cycling to work

Re: Our debt to Neville Chamberlain

Under Neville Chamberlain's leadership the people of Britain were braced for the courageous decision to...

My birth

The lady who my mother booked to be her midwife at my birth was wheeling an elderly lady down the...

Our World War II Memoirs - Dedicated to Mum & Dad

At the time she was annoyed, but fortunately is was lucky she did, because just as it turned the corner it...

Royal Hospital Chelsea

On the morning of the 3rd of January the same year we were walking towards our destination somewhere in...

Surviving the 'Doodlebugs'

We led a pretty normal life throughout the war, watching dog fights in the skies, playing in bomb craters...

A Wartime Childhood in West London

We lived in Popes Lane, Ealing, in the upstaires flat of a converted farmhouse which was one of the staff...

Few Bumps in the Night/Bath Time in the Wrens

When I came to Dover as a Wren I was billeted at Kings School Dover. I worked in the tunnels at Dover...

A New Life

So the next weekend five of us went to London to the Daily Express Office and announced that we had a...

D Day minus One

After leaving school at 16 and training in Reading, I was sent to work at Hamble - Folland Aircraft Factory...

The unexploded bomb in Ashford Common

One night we heard a loud whistling noise, Mr Moore said that it was only a flare — the Germans used...

Nursing Training in the Blitz

When I had time off I and a great friend used to buy a packet of seeds and feed the pigeons in...

A Rebel Who Loved The Water

Freda's love of the water and the skills she had acquired as a child on the River Thames meant that she...

Twins join the WAAF in WW2

One Sunday I was in charge of my female squad on Church Parade and the boys had a US Officer in charge....

JUST LUCK OR ……………?

Jean get under the table, I'll bring Jenny. Quickly indoors and pass Jenny to Jean already under...

A Kaleidoscope of Memories

Battle of Britain dog fights from Greenwich Observatory watching planes flying up the Thames straight for...

MY BROTHER'S WAR

IT WAS BECAUSE OF THIS THREAT THAT MY MOTHER AND FATHER DECIDED TO SEND ME TO HORNCHURCH IN ESSEX TO STAY...