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Children's fears during war

I was 11 years old when WWII began and my first memory of it was when I was put on a train...

Flying bombs 1943

What surprises me now is how indifferent we were to the flying bombs. We did not change our lives and used...

My Time In The Army

I was stationed in Hendon, London... Then I was downgraded, and sent to Aldershot, an army pay office....

Evacuated to London!

But then the Flying Bombs came -- so the hotel basement wasn't safe enough, and we went off to the...

the luckiest lady alive

I was on holiday in north Kent from working in Moseys and Stevens's florist in Berkley Square, where I...

Clark Gable Was in the Same Class as I was

After so many months, there was a bulletin for anyone who wanted to get a commission to take an exam and my...

Barrow women in World War Two

Joan said "Everyone in hospital was sitting up on the bed, but they were all dead from the bombs that...

Crystal Palace Memories

Buses were hit by bombs and totally blown to bits. Me and my sisters attended school there and came back to...

Arthur Jacobs' War Time memories

Arthur Jacobs War Time Memories. My name is Arthur Jacobs and when the war broke out I lived in East...

The Spy From The North.

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

Three Sisters

I was the youngest of three girls, Eileen, the eldest by three years and four months, Christine, the middle...

A2013328 - Daddy I never knew you

My mother got pregnant after a short affair with my father; who was quite a bit younger than she was. He...

My days in the London blitz

Dad was employed at Carter Paterson's in Enfield where they were building Halifax bombers... Towards...

Air Raid Warden Post at The Dickens House Museum in London

My aunt, Doris Minards, was assistant secretary of the Dickens Fellowship and the first curator of the...

Wartime allotments in Westminster.

My aunt spent the war in the Westbourne area, worked as a secretary in the west end of London and was a...

Fletchers Dancing Academy

Fletchers was opened originally at No 28 Oxford Road in 1938, later moving to larger premises at No 22......

From Bar to POW Camp

I was working at the LMS, that was the London Midland Scottish Railway, and I volunteered for the LDV,...

A little bit of Willesden

I had a 3-tier Wedding cake made by mother who, with several friends, had saved ingredients and coupons to...

Blitz wedding

Then later I worked in another factory that made made the metal parts of fire extinguisers for the...

A Boy and his Bicycle

I applied and was accepted as a cycle messenger, I received my uniform and joined the station at Tunnel...

My V1 Bomb Injuries

I remember the V1 and V2 bombs dropping at the back end of the war they were not very nice... The bomb...

Henry Cummings' Coded Messages in Music.

A photo taken from the BBC's 56th Season of the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts, 22nd July - 16th Sept...

War-time Romance on the Toss of a Coin.

We went to Bomber Command in Knighton Heath and I was posted to South Wales and to North Wales. He and a...

Bombs In Barnet

The injured were treated at first-aid posts dotted around Barnet. There was a local church hall used as an...

Thames alight

We were all in our shelter under the factory hearing bombs. One morning I came out of my aunts to be told...

The firemen never noticed us

Wally, then my fiancé now my husband, worked in the shipyard, repairing and converting ships to troop...