London

Jeannie Wood's memories

When my husband was away I went to work as a nanny in Salisbury and whilst working there I heard that he...

A Bevin Boy's First Doodlebug

This is the story of a Bevin Boy who lived in Sussex and was posted to a coalmine in Yorkshire, called...

Evacuee

I always listen with interest how the children of London where moved away from the bombs, whilst the...

The Blitz

The latest subjects are rationing, evacuees and The Blitz, and over the next couple of weeks you can tell...

Air Raid Mistake

We lived on New Road in Whitechapel, East London. FOR A STORY ABOUT MY OBSERVATIONS OF GERMAN PRISONERS OF...

Going to the Palace on VJ day

I had been at boarding school in Devon and we had gone to London for a drama course at the Everyman Theatre...

Our memories of the Whitehall Cinema bombing

Arthur - I was training in Wales with the Army in preparation for D-Day, but my friends were working in...

It nearly got me

I was going to work one day, I had to go by tram as far as South Wimbledon Tube station and then...

What are the odds?

It seemed to be the norm for Scots to be sent south to England for their army training and those like me...

Doodlebugs

I then asked my father how the stork managed to get through all these doodlebugs to bring me my baby...

Fire watching

At night I worked for the London Auxiliary Fire Service... I went to London only once, to Putney when bombs...

When the Lights Went On

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

Concert in the Blitz

As we were a very musical family we often went to the Promendade concerts at the Queen's Hall in...

My Escape

I was delivering newspapers in Douglas Avenue Walthamstow, when I noticed a doodlebug coming towards me,...

Watching D Day unfolding in advance

I was staying with Auntie Betty at her house at South Ruislip, Middlesex, which is about a mile from RAF...

Fire formed lasting friendships

People were trapped there and couldn't get out so anyone who had a boat travelled up the river from...

The Missing Underwear

On Monday, when my Mother started to do the washing, she could not find my Father's dirty underwear...

Stories my father told me

He was sent to Bury St. Edmunds in the early 1940s for further training as an instructor... The...

Nursing at King Edward VII Hospital

As a Mobile V.A.DRed Cross Nurse during World War II when working at King Edward VII Hospital, Midhurst,...

A Kids View

We lived near Kempton Park Race Course, which had been transformed into a huge Prisoner of war camp for...

My First Days of Life

Apparently when I was three days old a double decker bus went down either Clapham North or Clapham South...

Working on Heavy ACAC Guns

The guns were all around the edge of the gun park, like a necklace, so that they didn't shoot each...

Wartime Wales

I left school at 14 and went Hafordinous Hall,Llangerniew, with the intention of becoming a gardener,...

Banking and the Pay Corps in London

Every form of transport was taken, even bakers’ vans and long lines of commandeered vehicles...

Wartime nursing for the London County Council

She was sent to work as a school nurse for evacuated orphans who were staying at a stately home in...

Being a cook in the ATS

I was sent to Dulwich in London and went through the V1 and V2 bombing raids... While waiting for my...