London

Leaving Gibraltar

Aunty Julia — Charlie's wife — had her baby and left Gib after us on a Red Cross ship but...

A SLIP UP

Beds were in great demand , so was surprised to find a very aristocratic lady given extra space at the end...

Nursing in London

When the siren went, instead of seeking shelter, we went out to help the wounded and pick up the survivors...

Birmingham Hospitality Committee

We used to love going to American camps, one in particular was Packington Hall Solihull, we had a meal in...

Near Misses

When I was 16 I was living with my father in Ladbroke Grove — West London and during the height of...

Civil Defense

I was transferred to Cornwall House Waterloo still involved in Civil Defense, then on to the Home Office...

Evacuation from East London and taking shelter from the Blitz

After a year Betty moved back to live in London by which time her mother had moved to Etropole Road in...

Acton Town

I saw a lot of these coming from the London area in District Line trains on their way to Ealing Broadway...

A Wedding In The Blitz

RUNNING A PUB IN LONDON

When WW2 broke out my husband and I managed the Kingsway Tavern in Parker Street, Holborn where the trains...

John Greener — ARP, LDV, Army, Intelligence — A Full Experience!

John Greener — ARP, LDV, Army, Intelligence — A Full Experience. Whilst serving there I...

Crafty Deception (or was it a theft?)

One of my dad's shipmates was passing through the dock gates carrying a large wicker type picnic...

Bethnal Green Tube Shelter Disaster

I lived about a mile and a half from Bethnal Green station, which, like many stations on the London...

BILLY BROWN OF LONDON TOWN

Consequently the government issued a warning in the form of a cartoon character called BILLY BROWN OF...

Blasted Claims Forms at Romney House

Our offices were in a built around a quadrangle, and the bomb went straight down the middle of the...

Growing up fast on the Homefront

I was 19 years old when the war started and I joined the ARP working from Bethnal Green Town Hall in the...

Eileen Parsons Remembers - Induction

6am cold and dark and a trumpet blowing over the Tannoy, followed by Sergeant shouting to us to get out of...

Rat-catching!

I am a Londoner, and lived in Winchmore Hill, N21, and joined the Women's Land Army at seventeen and...

Barrage Balloon Duty

Marjorie was stationed at variuos locations around London which during air raids would not be a safe place...

MY WAR, G.J.Mooney 1939/1945

My Mum worked for Churchill at Admiralty. Sirens went, clear blue sky, vapour trails all over sky, looked...

UNBELIEVABLE

He was married to Betty who was the daughter of my mother's school friend. Austin had a daughter Pamela...

Those Were the Days

I did 6 weeks training in Bournemouth and was posted up to Medical Military Post at Northfleet, 6 ACK...

Domestic Service

Her oldest daughter was also in the army until she married Lena Daves' son Tony Brett and had a lovely...

WHEN THE GHOST WALKED

A memory I have from Cyprus was when I visited a friend who had been in the services in the war and...

To Get Into Bed I Used to Climb a Rope Ladder

I had another friend, Rose, who lived in Exeter and was also in the ATS... When we were bombed out at...

Bombing Raid on Greenford (Sept 1940)

I was born after the war, but prompted by reading Ray Lawlor's account of the Greenford bombing I...