London

Life On A Gun Site

By the time I was 20, I was a sergeant in the A.T.S. in charge of the radar teams on a gun...

The'109' Shot at my Dad

We were getting daytime and night time air raids, and when he was on a ladder, about twenty feet up in the...

Not only cats have nine lives

In the early hours of 8 August 1944, a doodle bug landed on my grandfather's house in Pemberton Road,...

War-Time Work.

There were Land Army girls on the farms who wore pork-pie hats, green sweaters, breeches and heavy boots....

Foley and Pascall family — Photo 1 and Story

For the other photos, see the titles: Foley and Pascall family — Photo 2 Foley and Pascall family...

my war experience

I decided to work near a home at the Birmingham small arms factory, where the chief production at the time...

Building Bellahouston Park Nissen hut camp

The company was sent to Bellahouston Park to erect fifty Nissen huts to provide the transit accommodation...

Evacuation and coming home to the blitz

My cousin her eldest son, was in Canada training to be a fighter pilot in the RAF, He was later killed in...

The story of an ambulance duty nurse in the Glasgow docks and doodlebug bombed London

The story of an ambulance duty nurse in the Glasgow docks and doodlebug bombed London. I trained as a nurse...

Tug on the Thames

We had patrol boats which were trying to find them at locations along the coast, where fuel dumps and tanks...

A Hampstead ARP Warden's Experiences

Then I volunteered as an ARP warden with my father when I was 19, (1938) and delivered gas masks to...

A Weekend to Remember

This made us late leaving Southend-on-Sea therefore it was early evening and dark when we arrived in...

Miracle Man survives tragic fall from railway bridge during a blackout.

Miracle Man survives tragic fall from railway bridge during a blackout. In 1942 my father was working the...

Vera!

My friend Vera and i decided to give up our jobs and join the Womens Auxillary Air Force, the WAAF, and we...

Four years in the ATS

I was in the ATS I was mainly doing office duties; company office duties sort of thing... First of all, we...

In at the deep end with BBC Monitoring

In 1942 I came for an interview at the BBC to be typist for the BBC Monitoring Service at Evesham. In 1943...

A War Casualty

I was 18 years old and worked at the South Suburban Co-Op Society in Acre Lane Brixton London SW2. I was...

Dodging the Doodlebugs

The Chief Warden didn't like the women going anywhere near where the bombs were, just in case we saw...

Experiences of a Musician

I had a lot of friends at Moulton College. When VE Day came, me and two of these friends went to London......

A Texan VE Day

We walked across the park, Green Park I think it was, and we got on the Underground, probably the...

Bombed Out

The house collapsed like a pack of cards on top of James, my father-in-law, Joe and his dog. Rescuers dug...

Medical student in Scotland

Training as an R.A.F. officer lasted only 4 days after which I was posted to an R.A.F. centre dealing with...

How It Was

Gunner Henry William Raison, of the famous 51st Highland Division, who was wearing the ribbon of the Africa...

Young memories of a North Londoner.

My father was an air raid warden and I remember him being teased for emptying a bucket of sand over an...

Several Tots of Rum!

There he had a stone jar of “Napoleon Rum” as he called it which he brought out of his office,...

One day in a London School Boy's life during WW2

When the Second World War started, I was 4-1/2 years old and lived with my mother, father and 2 brothers in...