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John's War

I had left school and was back in London living with my grandparents at 1 Hyde Park Street, Paddington,...

Molly's War Effort -part 1

Friday night came and with some intrepidation Molly and Lil wended there way along to the hall to find out...

The London Blitz

I can well remember the first daylight raid of the Blitz,watching the bombers high up in the sky over...

My Teenage War Years: Evacuated to Somerset

When the school that I was attending at the time, John Harvard Senior Boys School in Southwark, London,...

My Wartime Childhood

I went to Cranford Park primary School in Phelps Way, which was hit by a bomb in the early months of the...

Only an Evacuee Part 2

At Pulborough I was put in the junior class with the village boys and a few other evacuees. But the hardest...

from schoolboy to shunter - Part Two Working on the main land

I heard that the invasion of Europe had started and turned up at the yard to find they were looking for...

Memories of a Girl born into a Police Family [Mrs.Welch]

Covent Garden opera house cleared out all the seats and turned it into a dance hall. Ivor Novello was a...

Under Attack: Living with the Bombs

Friends took us in and found out where Mum and my brother were. Wally was in Southall and Mum and Dad in...

Evacuation Ends!

I think I was only there long enough to perhaps get my new school uniform and then I remember being put on...

Land Mines and Fighter Plane Crashes!

Our home, in London, was a six-storey town-house and one night a bomb landed precisely on top of the wall...

Moths

I would not have bothered you, but she is now threatening to contact the Sanitary Inspector unless, by...

A Child's Sounds of War

I was a child during the second world war and we lived at Plaistow in East London, the house we occupied in...

My War Years 1939-1945 (Part 1 1939-1942)

My best friend Betty, whom I'd met at a dance, invited me to her house and I was surprised to find that...

Recollections of Ordinary Experiences during Extra-ordinary Times -Part Two

We were billeted in wooden huts, about 30 girls in each — at one end of the hut was a little...

My War in Mill Hill, London

It did not help when after the war dad was modernising houses and the Jewish customers were trying to...

1940-1944. A Conscript's Story

The first exploded about 100 yards short of our guns, the second bomb fell right inside the next gun pit to...

Bombs: V1s and V2s, London and Oxford

We backed onto the cricket field in the Crystal Palace Grounds. One could trace the line of bomb craters,...

Teenage Memories of World War Two

By an ironic twist of fate, and a year later, I stood in a busy London street on the periphery of Shepherds...

Teenage Memories of WW2: Work and the London Blitz

By an ironic twist of fate, and a year later, I stood in a busy London street on the periphery of Shepherds...

A Bermondsey Boy's War. Part 8 - Hitler's Secret Weapons.

Dad had got the contract to supply the local School Canteens and Londoners Meals Service Restaraunts with...

Grandma's War Part 2

Like a large number of older people in our part of London, neither Aunt Lot or Uncle Bill could write a...

A Close Call with a Buzz Bomb !

Mum and I went to London after the Blitz, even then night and day bombing was daily. Mum and I went to...

The Blitz

A lot of bombs fell on Edmonton and even more on the Tottenham indistrial estate, where my father worked as...

From London to Bampton - a Wartime Childhood

When I see Travellers, kids, I often think "that was me once". After a year of my idea of heaven,...

Childhood Wartime Memories - Part Two

And the other thing that my Mum used to do, which I have got an interest in is Maps because after the...