London

Unwitting witness to the Battle of Britain

Living in Croydon, and it was badly bombed, I had a lot of stories The Germans couldn't get into London...

Sept 3rd 1939 - The date war nearly started.

Hitler decided to invade England, but to do that he had to have control of the skies over Britain. Although...

Ilford in the War

My name is Roy Brooker, I was born in 1926 in Ilford East London and went to school there until the start...

War-time Childhood Memories in Walworth, South-East London

My mum immediately took me to relatives in Cambridge but when nothing happened, we came back to Walworth in...

Banking during the London Blitz

As soon as the Battle of Britain came to an end the Luftwaffe switched to night bombing of London which...

The Jam Packers

I worked with a team of 3 other girls finishing jars of jam and marmalade. On one occasion the other girls...

Life in the R.A.M.C

In March 1940 at the age of 28, I was called up for the R.A.M.C.. I went to Hampshire Fleet that was...

Keeping in touch

I have often wondered why he always travelled with our party and it has made me think that all the work we...

Fragments of War by Pam Cluderay

My husband David who grew up in Southall fought his own private war by going out and firing his catapult at...

Smoking In Bed

One day a man went into the Bakers Shop and asked where to find accommodation, he was told “go to the...

Civil Servant Edna

My husband and my father wouldn't let me join the forces so I decided to stay as a civil servant and...

Evacuation and Air Raids

They were evacuated to just outside Welwyn Garden City and Marie vividly remembers the receiving families...

Given a bit of cheek

Anyway, I delivered the message, returned down the stairways, and I chatted to the chaps all the way down,...

Blitz - As told by Violet to her daughter

I saw headlines on the news stands stating "Bomb a minute". At the start of the war I was working...

All types of bombing in wartime London

The storyteller lived in London throughout the war and was ten years old when he experienced the first...

PARIS - Autumn/Winter1944 & Spring/Summer 1945

We had been flown over two weeks after the liberation of Paris to staff the offices of the American Army...

Evacuation

We are going to put you all in the Underground Shelter at Newington Green for the rest of the Night and...

You heard the "swish" of the rocket just before it landed on the house

One morning I was making a cup of tea: I'd just got in from the kitchen to the sitting room, I had...

Fire Watching in Marylebone Road

The black sky and the stars, with the search-lights criss-crossing the sky from Hyde Park. When the siren...

GAC and the Great A46 Landslip

There was a new factory being built adjacent to the ‘old’ Gloster Aircraft Company hangers and...

Memories of an ATS Gun Site

When we did get some time off, we would go to London to the Stage Door Canteen or dancing to bands such...

PUTNEY BLITZ

This was way back in 1943, Putney got a real bashing, the dance hall in the high street was bombed Ron and...

Peckham in the Second World War

My mum spent the nights in a brick shelter while my dad went to work at Sidcup Garage... One night when my...

Travelling with a typewriter during the war

I also remember travelling by train to Germany. During the war I travelled from one place to another,...

Jackie

While we were all waiting at the railway station I palled up with a boy of about my age called Jackie...

Bill Treadwell - From Tail End Charlie to Typewriter Mechanic

In August 1946, he was guarding German POWs in Moascar, Egypt and he befriended one of them, George, who...