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Memeories of the war in London

I lived with my family at 231 Camberwell Road London S.E.5 tel... My elder brother was in the RAMC at the...

Epic Journey

There was smoke coming out of Aldgate Station and there were fires from Poplar to Aldgate. Hull had been...

How we saw the blitz through

As a child I lived in west London — I was evacuated to South Devon with my sister — but my...

Boys In a Soldier's Hospital

I had bits of wood from the staircase embedded in my brain and my brother had lots of glass in his head....

Evacuation

Hustle and bustle everywhere Cries of "goodbye"rending the air Rucksacks, cases and parcels of food...

A War Time Night in the Life of a W.R.A.F

The night was dark and dreary, the atmosphere most glum, Pay day seemed so far away, and thoughts of home...

All you could see was his eyes!

I said “Go and wash yourself Bert and then come and gave a cup of tea!.. We used to have them all...

London County Council War Nursery Remembered

My mother was a Norland Nanny and in 1941 she left Reigate and took a position working in N London as a...

The Only All Female Regiment In The World!

I wanted to be a driver but Winston wanted girls to go to London to take over Searchlight from the men......

The story of Jessie Webb

Jesse Webb lived at Box Cottage, Village Road, Arle... Jesse was in the Regimental Police and then in the...

Hurlford War Hero

The award was presented to Mr Wylie in honour of his heroic attempts to defuse a Nazi bomb which had landed...

The Cost of Fighting Fascism

My father volunteered to go to the war in 1940 as he was in a reserved trade, saying, “This war...

School Days

Hi My name is Dennis Grange I was Six years old at the start of ww2 I lived in Leytonstone East London...

"A clip around the ear"

We were evacuated to Luton in 1940 for a few months and following a short time back in London we were...

Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachment Nurse

She left school and became joined the Red Cross as a Voluntary Aid Detachment Nurse. She recalls some of...

Sportsmen in the War

Bert Assirati was born in Islington, London in 1908, and in the late twenties became a professional...

The Ginger Cat in the Anderson Shelter

One night their house was bombed butwe were all safe in the shelter slthough the shelter was filled with...

A Leyton girl's recollections

I was eleven years old and living in Leyton, east London at the outbreak of World War 2. In the absense of...

What might have been

One Sunday in the summer of 1941 my friend Mabel and I decided to go to Putney to the new Dance Hall...

My War l939/42

Being a teenager this did not sink in until my mother, who was a member of the Territorial Army was called...

The Yanks Race to the Doodlebug explosion site

I was seven years old in 1939 when the war commenced, one of four children, and we lived in Stone about a...

Home Guard in Thurrock

I was in the Home Guard — Essex and sometimes we were based in Tilbury Dock... Grover was one of them...

Working in the Quartermasters on the docks

During the war she was a member of the Wrens and was stationed in Liverpool, working in the quarter masters...

Being in school in London 1939-45

When the factory received warning rhat a flying bomb was approaching this disc was changed to red... One...

Celebrations in the barracks

We might have only had three records and a windup gramophone player but we enjoyed those three records,...

Memories of a child

I was born 1938 so I was only 7 years old when peace was declared in 1945 yet: I lived in Cricklewood...