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Joan Quibell's Diary - Part Seven - 1944

When I was cowering in the hut listening to the sickening screaming of the bombs and the barking of the...

My War Years: As an ATS Fire Control Operator

Since my husband had been stationed in the Orderly Room at Perth I had applied for a transfer to Scotland...

Wartime Diary of a Customs Officer: Ch 4 - May - Jul 1940

22 Sat Kay did not go down to discuss sending Betty to Canada with Mum, as we heard from Roy, who came...

The Story of Lillian Ewins [L.Ewins : Part 3]

Billy had a very good voice, like his Dad, and sang m St. Lukes church choir. While Billy was attending...

Evacuation From London: Woodford Green to Kettering

The children from London arrived often after nights of bombing, wearing a name and address label, carrying...

Kids in London: Games, Rationing, Tap Dancing, Staying Alive

My father was too old for call up in the armed forces as he was born in 1888, but 3 of my...

Buzz Bombs to VE Day

15a — Mike Gerrard was born in 1935 in London, but now lives in Bidford. Mike Gerrard: No, my mother...

Bus Stop (Chapter 4 part 1)

Thousands of people spent years sleeping every night in the Underground stations but they had to go there,...

Wartime Diary of a Customs Officer: Ch 3 - Jan - Apr 1940

Mum offered to look after Beryl again and off Kay and I went to Raynes Park cinema. 13 Sat Great commotion,...

London in War Time

I do not remember our trip to Scotland to see Dad before he was taken away to the war in Algiers but...

Women's Land Army — Sept. 1939 - Dec. 1942

Next morning it was up early to start in the cowshed at 6.00 a.m. and learn to milk - not with a...

A Bermondsey Boy's War. Part 1. 1939- Evacuation to Worthing.

The following weekend, it was still warm and sunny, and our little group were walking along the crowded...

My War - Chapter 1

Before too long Mrs Harley introduced me to her church, Saint Mary's, I don't think I had ever been...

Childhood Memories

He said that he had heard Miss Williams tell his fostermother that she had received a letter from my...

A Bermondsey Boys War. Part 5 - Home once again.

He would pick Dad up very early in the mornings, on his way to the Borough Market, near London Bridge, and...

The White Figure - A True Wartime Ghost Story

Therefore, the hair could continue to pass through this lattice, up to the inside of the domed shape roof...

Bus Stop (Foreword & Chapter 1)

When London Transport began recruiting woman conductors to cover call-up shortages in 1940 they decided to...

War in Kensington

My brother Paul, our friends and me used to collect shrapnel from the guns and bombs. I went with my...

A Bill Brown Experience: Chapter 11 D Rothery: Wounded in France 1944

There you are, they are human after all'. After idling our time away here for a few weeks all...

Marjorie and Fred's story

I moved to London with my family because the house was bombed and we lived first for eighteen months in...

Molly's war effort Part 2

With a battered suitcase filled with as many cloths as could be got together Lil and Molly trundled off to...

Recollections of the Second World War Part 5

I was recovering from measles and had just gone to bed in the back room where I was severely bounced about...

Youthful Experiences in London

So with a sad farewell from Mother I started on my great adventure on the 1st September to first go to...

A Bermondsey Boys War Part 6 - A National Fire Service Messenger.

She told us that the Section-Leader who was organising the Youth Messenger Service for the Division was Mr...

Experiences of a Young Man

1940 Having spent the previous Christmas with my Grandparents in London and the "Blitz" having...

13 Farthings - Chapter 2 part 1

Some men came along and cut down all the iron railings in front of the houses in Digby Road; Boy scouts...