London

Tea tasting in Shoreditch

Winston Churchill broadcast many messages which kept our spirits up and we would all stand up in the office...

Trying to get home to London

After a while my mum took me and my siblings back to London and one time we went to an air-raid shelter...

Doodle bugs and Dancing

Not surprisingly some of the pay was in foreign currency as the men formed part of the Allied Invasion, and...

We Never Heard Anyone Go

It was a very famous stage school in Chiswick; Carona Academy. The place was full of Canadians and New...

Our First V2.

In early 1945 we had moved from Devon to my Grandfather's house in Camrose Avenue , Edgeware... A...

Too Close for Comfort

Whilst they were with us, a VII rocket landed just outside the Palmers Green Railway station. When they...

A Fair Exchange

I stayed in London during the blitz and left school at fourteen to work in an engineering company making...

Game of football and sent to see the headmaster

I was very apprehensive as I approached the headmaster, “What do you require Foulds”, “Mr...

Only 16 and I had a Browning automatic rifle

Contrary to popular belief that we were armed only with broomsticks and pikes, I was equipped and fully...

Fire-watching is Fun

At 97 Amy still has memories of the First World War, but in the Second World War she was living in Old...

The Dance Hall Bomb

The Dance Hall Bomb...

My injections

I was walking up Oxford St in London one day when I just walked into the army office and signed up. I...

Sportsmen in the A.R.P.

The authorities said he did AT LEAST four mens work....heavy timbers, blocks of cement weighing hundreds of...

Silent destroyer

We thought we lived in a lucky road as no bomb seemed to fall on us... We found out later it was...

Joan Singing for the Troops

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...

Reflections

As a civilian we had to continue to "take it", whereas as a member of the armed forces we felt able...

Winston Churchill and us

In Cockney parlance we felt "right narners". We tured around and there was a grinning Winston...

HURRY 6am - Breakfast won't wait !

Loud knock - 6am - groan, turn over, fall asleep, clatter of feet, roll out of bed, stagger to bathroom,...

Doody

Doodle-bugs: We had an awful lot of doodle-bugs during my time; in fact, my wife — who was in the...

My Great Uncle - a very brave but modest man

My Great Uncle Reg a very modest man served in both WW1 and WW2. In WW2 Reg served in a bomb disposal...

Hello World War Two .

Ofcorse i was sad.I was given to a very nice lady called Amy.Ofcorse i called her Antie Amy.She fed me very...

"Name Sake"

During the war the sailors were stationed at Instow, North Devon doing trial wading prior to entering...

Shopping at Twickenham Green

Shopping with mother at the local shops in Staines Road, Twickenham, Middlesex siren went, we raced to the...

We Danced in Our Pyjamas!

Two of us went, but we were ready for bed, in our pyjamas and he was not going to wait too long;...

Bananas

I was home on leave from my last trip to Sierra Leone waiting for a taxi at Victoria Station. I had my...