London

Let Me Out Of Here!

In 1945, my wife Mabel and I had the run of 4 Sandy Lane because Mabel's mother had been evacuated. We...

ARP Exercise

A family friend, Derek Pratt, was an air raid warden, he rounded up myself and several friends to act as...

Seeing Dad

One day us three brothers: Wal aged 14, Don aged 11 and me, Eric aged 12, decided we would pop over and...

Betty Lakey’s Story

During the war I lived nine miles from London at Hayes Middlesex, where Spitfires were made. One day a...

War Time Memories

During the War, after a particulary heavy raid, the Matron of the Hospital, rang through to me to ask if I...

Twickenham Grammer School

Then we got a message to say come to Twickenham station and our group of 1st years were taken to Twickenham...

Watching the ships come in/ war sweet-hearts

Submitted by Alex Crawford on behalf of Mrs. Giles: I was engaged to chap in the Merchant Navy but we fell...

Listening to Haw Haw

I can picture my 'old' gran who would have been sixty'ish at time, huddled over the radio set...

My Mum and the Blitz

My mother was a Hampshire woman drafted into work at an aircraft factory near High Wycombe when they met,...

Explosive shopping trip

Woolworth was round the corner from us, a man had a stall with china and he said, we will all get under...

Growing up in Chiswick

I was 5 years old living in Bedford Park, my Father was a policeman... That particular day my father was...

STRANGE PHENONEMON

Princess Elizabeth was in her ATS Uniform and at the time, I was with my friends, standing overlooking the...

Left in London

Loneliness in the evenings made me join the ARP... In 1989 my darling passed on but I have been rewarded I...

ww2 casualty - royal indian air force

He was my Dad's elder brother, only 26, and was due to return to India to marry my Mom....

Buzz Bomb Baby

November 17th 1944 a buzz bomb landed on the church in Londesborough Road, Stoke Newington, causing the...

Have you ever seen an egg?

Quite taken aback by this I of course said yes, and proceeded to tell them that I had also seen...

My Welcome Home

I came back to London and Manor Road over the LIAP route that I had previously helped to run... As I got...

life in Streatham

In 1941 my grandmother aged 71 lived in a top storey flatin Streatham overlooking The Common. My...

East End Devastation

At 14, my school days over, I commenced 4 years of travelling 24 miles per day to get to work and back,...

my wedding aniversary

8.45 was when it happened it was my wedding anniversary the day we got bombed only 4 got killed that time....

Civil Defence

All messages received by phone from ARP posts in area were dictated to the writers who then wrote them out...

WW2

Electric Atmosphere

The ocean liner "Aquitana" shipped us from Liverpool to Halifax in Canada in the Autumn of 1943...

Despatch Rider

I was a despatch rider for a while and I had to lead a convoy through London... I think everyone was shaken...

Ulverscroft Road

Our family never dreamt of leaving London even though they were,like everyone else,subject to the bombs and...

back in the past

We had to complete 10 tasks as this being one of them. on Friday we had to no three war songs a...