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The King of the Water Pipes

Mc Duell appointed me as his Area Water Officer, and made it very clear to me that I was now expected to...

"Is it Gas?"

Things began well enough, cycling around the Camden Town/Euston Road delivering telegrams in the Summer was...

When Ted Lost Margaret!

I hadn't been to where they lived before, hadn't travelled a lot and didn't know London well,...

Thanked and Thanked Again

On the way there, my wife and I shared a taxi with two ladies. And then, after the lunch, my wife and...

Terrified by the Blitz

During the war I worked at a firm of printers doing work for the Ministry of Information and went into...

Muriel Minto's Story

I volunteered for the WRENS when I was seventeen, I had to go to Winchester for my training, a long way...

Norman , Army Kinema Corporation

Army Kinema Corporation Norman Walter Cullis-Cussens, worked for the Army Kinema Corporation,in...

Growing up in WW2

My name is Ronald Holland and I was born in South London but moved to Brighton 45 years ago and then moved...

It was coming straight for me!

I was going home on another half day —. I'd gone parallel with Baker Street and up Gloucester...

Meetings and family Partings

It was Edith announcing that she was in Edinburgh and would arrive in Stonehaven about midnight with the...

London in World War Two

They were then given the option of alternative accommodation in London or - return to Wales....

AN INTERVIEW WITH THOMAS BROMMELL

We left London when my youngest brother was about 6 years old... My youngest brother began to look so ill,...

My War Story Part 2

Well, one night I had gone to bed in the bottom bunk and Eva, my friend, was in the bunk above... I...

Delivering bread in Walthamstow, 1943-1945

I left school in 1943 and started work as a van boy for Holdstock & Son Bakers and the van driver's...

With the Police in the Middle East

I joined the police and was in London - Princes Gate Court, Kensington... Then I went overseas with the...

Putting on a good show in Lewisham

One of men in the heavy rescue squad in the west part of Lewisham, the B Company, was a producer. We toured...

Thanks For The Memory

There was another part of the factory that were producing the Bombs. We were also lucky not to get bombed....

A nine year old's memory of evacuation

He told me that a doodlebug had dropped on my house in London. I came back to London before the end of...

Family Wedding

It was a great Saturday when my sister Grace got married, the weather was sunny and lovely blue skies, a...

Taking shelter in Canonbury

During the Blitz Doris and her family would have to go down to a shelter which they shared with the other...

The Search for Glenn Miller

While I was in London I saw Glenn Miller at the Queensbury Club in Soho. It was not until the BBC announced...

The VE Day Bonfires

The night the end of the war in Europe was announced, while we did not have anything like bunting lining...

The Fire

He then went to a cupboard and bought out a lemonade bottle full of "a liquid'. He took the top off...

Air Raids in Harrow

My grandparents home in Neasden near Wembley was blasted by a doodle bug bomb... We lived near Northholt...

Keeping Fit in the Park

Orders came through to report to RAF Innsworth Lane Depot, Gloucester, 21st March 1941. In the year 1944 my...

Bombing of the Metropole in Bexhill

The bombing got very bad in Bexhill so the authorities decided to evacuate people, we could go to...