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My First Air Raid

It was a Tuesday/Wednesday when enemy planescame twice and dropped four high explosive bombs,two made...

my secret leg and the battle of somme

Harry and the son went back to London because of their jobs, although Harry eventually moved to Clifton...

'The Cheapest Holiday We Could Find'

I worked at the post office and my colleagues said to me "One of these days we'll go to...

The Writing on the Rocket

I can remember standing by our gate in Cheam and looking towards London. Later in the war, it must have...

The Broadway Entertainers

And after the war, a spate of undistinguished radio, TV and stage appearances, followed by working in Tin...

An Unexploded Landmine

In early 1943 my father and mother, namely Albert and Louisa Jones, myself Ann Jones, my sister Christine...

Childhood memories late in the war

Life in the Anderson shelter became the norm for the storyteller, her mother and grandmother by 1944 as...

A War Experience

I've been requested by my Daughter to remember some incident from world war two; As a skilled toolmaker...

A Special Day Out

My colleague and I were interested in the shrubs overhanging the wall and at one point we were able to view...

Passing The Devastation Of Tooting

I lived with my parents and my brother on Louisville Road in the Upper Tooting area of London and, my...

War's End

Pall Mall, Westminster, Leicester and Trafalgar Square and Piccadilly Circus were flood-lit... Close to...

Working during the war years

Joan was a young adult of 19 during the was ad she worked on the trolley buses as a conductress... One of...

11 days in a schoolgirl's life

In 1941 I was a "Scholarship" girl in my 3rd year at the Liverpool Institute High School for...

11 days in a schoolgirl's life

In 1941 I was a "Scholarship" girl in my 3rd year at the Liverpool Institute High School for...

Working at Bridge End Arsenal and The Day I stole the Green Flag

Once we pulled away from the station, I revealed to my friends where I had hidden the flag — in my...

Family Celebrations on VE Day

Had shepherd's pie and greens for dinner, also cherries. This afternoon we went down to Hornsey Town...

‘Excerts from some of my memories’

When I was “called up”, I had the choice of either going to Ceylon or the War Office. Although...

KC12 Going Home

We landed in Liverpool with our travel vouchers for home and warm clothing still in our trunks... Then we...

Young Days in the A.T.S.

I joined the A.T.S. in my late teens, and after doing my basic training was posted to a Heavy Artillery gun...

Grace's London story

Once, where St Paul's Cathedral is, you could see the dome of it and all around it was flames where...

Two in trouble

My friend Bill Blackham who lived next door but one — number 39 Priors Croft, and had been at work at...

Evacuated office workers

My four younger sisters were evacuated to Wadham in Buckinghamshire. Because of all the records, they...

V2 at Chingford, also our Reunion with Erma, and Psyche.

One of the few

The sexton was most obliging and to my amazement described the aircraft's last moments as it crashed...

Colchester story

After a year as a driver, I was sent to Colchester for compassionate leave, where I stayed for 2 years....

My Lucky Escape from the Whitehall Cinema Bombing

My friends in the cinema were killed, as was my friend Francis Curry who had been evacuated to East...