London

Back to the Barracks for Peace and Quiet

The bomb had hit the church tower and bounced to the shops opposite and destroyed them The blast from the...

my schoolboy war

I was swinging on our garden gate, eating half an orange when my mother, came rushing out of the house...

Wartime hobnobbing with the stars

I went batting to waiting on tables and met these people:Robert Taylor, Victor McLadder, and Leslie Howard....

Evacuation from Shoreditch

Amy and her three children lived in Appleby Street in Shoreditch. Eventually Amy and her children were...

Nursing in London

I was nursing in a London hospital during the war. Though of course we didn't have many porters, as...

What goes up must come down!

During a course of training to become a wireless operator I attended a RAF signals school held in the...

Air Raids in Harrow and Area

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

The Bomb that dropped in for Tea

Then Mum, Sandra and I were evacuated to Liverpool for about 6 months. During this time Sandra and I went...

George's War

At the outbreak of WW2 he returned to London as he was concerned about his aged father who was disabled as...

The City of London alight

The bombers had caught the City of London and gutted it: Bob's job was to deliver packets and uniforms...

Doodlebug

She said that as she walked along towards Highbury Corner to meet a friend in a cafe at the end of the...

A WREN's memories

My friend Betty, later Mrs Graham Hill, had not long been stationed there when we went on a liberty trip to...

The War Kept me a Civilian

Then along came Hitler and the uneasy peace after the Prime Minister came back from Munich waving a piece...

Christmas in the Cellar

I lived with my Mum, Dad, and older brother in a 3rd Floor flat above Lennards the shoe shop, which was on...

Ambulance driver in London

Our first call out was for a bomb which had dropped at Hammersmith Broadway. When we got to the Broadway,...

A Weird Experience But A Lucky Escape

We had to take the laundry to London Moons Garage in Kensington. Well, we were taking the laundry to...

MY DIARY

Dear Diary Today was I in the class room suddely there was an air raid it was terrorfing there was a bomb...

Ghostly aparition?

He was a local Winchester lad and lived in Couch Green, a hamlet near Winchester, with his wife, and their...

A Youngsters Memories

In 1945 I was aged 5 and I remember a hearing the noise of a doodlebug coming over, my gran grabbed me,...

An Air Raid in Hackney

They would bring with them packets of biscuits or some tea and my mother would make tea for everybody and...

What a coincidence!

War was declared, so I went to school with my brother and sister, where we were put on a coach and taken...

Blitz

Greenford is about 5 miles from Northolt airport at which a polish fighter squadron was based, so it was...

Being a Lad during the London Blitz

My father used to work in the telephone service as a night operator in Queen Victoria Street, London,...

I remember.

I remember I was shopping one day with my Mum,sister and a child my Mum was looking after.The child was in...

War experiences in London and Somerset

I was in the coal mining area of Somerset living with a family of miners... At that time the coal mines...

Working at Hawker

Hawker produced aircraft types such as the Hurricane and Typhoon; I remember the prototype Tornado as...