London

Commuting in Lorries

So then the bombing did start and I was working in London, so of course when it happened there were no...

MULTIPLYING BY TWO WAS NOT FOR ME

At the start of the War I was a civil servant, in the Min of Ag which was evacuated to St Anne's...

Different Kind Of Night Life

It was June 1940 and I was a wages clerk at A.G.I in Purley Way Croydon. Mr Eden, the Foreign secretary I...

An Irish Soldiers Introduction To Firewatch

I was sent to London in civilian clothes with about thirty other Irish men. I became a flight sergeant and...

Childhood Memories

One night the windows were blown in, by a bomb on the gasworks in Ash Grove behind us. Looking back I...

Beatrice's Evacuation

Then Aunt Daisy, my mother's sister, came down from Scotland and pressurised my mum to let her take us...

A Near Miss

We realised it was a German V2 rocket that had landed not far away... All the boys went towards the site...

No. 1 London

When I was a telegram boy, we delivered all of our telegrams on foot as our area was densely populated; for...

machine gunning

One dinner time during the war at about 12.00 when us children were coming out of school an enemy aircraft...

Morrison Shelter

Angie's husband, Frank, was an Air Raid Warden; their son, Alan, was born in 1942. Alan was tiny then,...

Waterloo Station/ My encounter with a V1- (Doodle Bug)

The V1 dropped close by the white steps of Waterloo station. Every morning at around nine o'clock on...

Harrow World War II Commemoration Event 26 June 2005

Harrow Council is holding an event on 26 June 2005 to commemorate the end of World War II... There will be...

Remembrance Of VE Day

I remember VE Day very well, it was my 18th birthday and when we left the Naval Officers Club we went...

Sleeping in the tube station

I was moved to the Royal Masonic Hospital at Hammersmith in 1941, which experianced the worst of the London...

Comradeship

Joan Wise was just 17 when the war broke out and lived in New Romney which was on the route for planes...

Extra patient?

The Orderly quickly informed me the Chief Nurse Suster was on her Way. I quickly led S/Sgt Price to an...

When the Lights went Off

In 1940 during a German Air Raid on London Docks, we took cover in our Anderson Air Raid Shelter in our...

A Fair Exchange

I was still at school when the war started, living near Stretham in South London. The day before my...

Doodlebugs in Tottenham Court Road

You used gravy browning to paint your legs, then drew a line up the back for the 'stocking' effect....

VE DAY BIRTHDAY - No. 2

My brothers weren't born then, and my dad was still working on the railway and we were just waiting for...

SATURDAY SCRAP!

Croydon County Council, our local authority, asked for volunteers to collect scrap and my friend Maurice...

"I Won't Be Long Dear"

During the war I was a scullery maid and it was all stone flags, the passages and everything I used to have...

FIRST OF THE FEW

The Power of Prayer

On the day our Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, asked the nation to join in prayer, I remember attending...

Where to live

Wapping is an island built into the middle of London and surrounded by water and all the ships with all the...

My Wedding in the Bombed Out Church

I was due to be married in St Jude's Church but the day before my wedding the church was bombed and we...