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Spy radio beacons

At the time I was working at the GPO Research Station, Dollis Hill, in northwest London... I found that I...

A Flying Bomb Hits My Old School

When we reached the top of Sunnyhill Rd. about 7.45 a.m. and was starting to go down the hill, I heard a...

PAT BULLOCK'S CHILDHOOD MEMORIES OF THE LOSS OF THE FIREFIGHTERS AT THE OBELISK

Firemen were trying to douse the fires when the Germans dropped a land mine killing 40 firemen. I was a bit...

The Spy From The North.

Please!" and sometimes they added 'and others!' that is if it had been a trying night with some...

Outbreak of war - the news is heard in Liverpool.

I only stayed at your house till about 10.0 as it was thunder and lightning terrible and our Nora would...

Wartime life between the munitions factory and bombed-out Hackney

It was whilst Flo was out of London that her home suffered from bomb damage: Although being in London...

Day the Fighting Stopped

Other people got into more glamorous jobs - boat crews, RAF MT drivers and maintenance of aircraft, which...

Just a wartime story (as a child)

Because of the raids being so bad my aunt took me in for a year in Billerieay, Essex. During the V1's...

Joan's War

We were given shirts, skirts which had to touch the floor when we were kneeling, underwear called twilights...

Counteragent

About a week before the war started the powers that be decided that the enemy would attempt to defeat the...

Beginning of War as a student

In September 1939 I was getting ready to start my second year as a student at a Teachers’ Training...

Rhodesian Service men

He worked at Rhodesia House in The Strand during the day and for the Metropolitan Special Police at...

Life in Staines

My sister and I were standing in our garden in Staines with our Mum when all of a sudden the air raid...

Nursing in Wartime

We were allowed an half hour to get to the dining hall, which was quite a long walk, eat our breakfast, and...

Lessons in Living - Part One

Our neighbour was a fireman — missing for three days, fell through front door, wife just put him into...

A Little Light Music...

The war was over at this time; I was in the Royal Navy and had arranged to meet some of my shipmates...

Opportunity Realized

After the war, a spate of undistinguished radio, TV & stage appearances, was followed by employment as...

VE Celebrations: from Lasham to Buckingham Palace

I lived at Lasham Aerodrome in a Nissan hut with 20 other WAAFs....

Sirens, Shelters and Shrapnel.

My mother and father, Florence E and Wallace S Foote, and me, Mike Foote, their only son, moved from...

My family experiences

My mother and I used to go up to London from time to time to be with him, and we experienced a...

ALL IN A DAY'S WORK

At 16 I was just out of school and working in my first job in a dressmakers in Bond Street, just off...

I found freedom

Private Ida Norman was only a teenager when she joined the Royal Corp of Signals and became one of the team...

Wartime work in Essex

Some of the Sergeants would bellow at us because we were girls. One Sergeant reported me to the RSN, he...

V 1's Leaf Massacre

I had been returned to London from Paignton where many airmen had been sent to get them out of London at...

Manning the “ack-ack” guns

Jack made many friends in the army and got on very well with them. After a period in the army Jack...

Buzz bombs in Catford

1944 we lived in Catford and often we were woken at night and got into our siren suits - like the ones...