London

my wedding aniversary

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

Our Trip to the Anderson Shelter.

We , my Mother , Sister and I , were staying with our Grandparents at number 134 Camrose Avenue , Edgeware...

Lucky Escape

I was walking along Ilford High Road early on a Friday morning when, suddenly, a Messerschmitt 109 came...

The Scones and the Brigadier

Everyone teased me about it and I was known from then on as ‘the girl who shut the windows when the...

the night my father died

1940. lincoln house in high holborn had taken a direct hit at 3.23am and many people were trapped inside....

How I came to join the fire service

I was 23 in 1941, I had been working as a machinist doing war work - cockpit covers for Blenheim Bombers......

Doodle Bugs in Europe

When I was in Eindhoven I was in a cinema, when a Doodlebug came over and landed about two miles away......

DANCING AT BUTLINS

During the war I was in the Canadian Postal Service serving in England. We played at some great dances at...

VE day

I do remember my parents allowing me to stay up in the evening and we walked from Earls Court to Buckingham...

The Bombs in South East London

I was living in SE London near a railway station....

A historical table

I served the last year of the second World War in Europe as a Wing Commander in the Directorate of Bomber...

Life as as an Air Raid Warden

I was living in St John's Wood and there was no transport - no taxis - nothing. I had to walk very...

Worrying About Mum

I was living in Apsley Cotts, Chartham near Canterbury during the war with my older brother and sister and...

Training as a nurse

One particular night, I had a throat infection though, so could not work on the midwifery ward and instead,...

Wrexham girl celebrates the end of the war in London!

We went to Buckingham Palace, and the King and Queen came out on the balcony, and the two princesses... My...

Penicillin Saved My Life

The room was quite big and had two big sash windows. Later, my Mother came to see me but, as I was...

V E Day memories of Mrs Merial J Dunn

I joined the WRNS in February 1941 “to fill in time until the war ended” because I planned to...

Neverland

Even more so as we were only three/four minutes walk from Bushy Park which was home to many USA and...

Sissy's Story

We went to school together and then did war work in Middlesex for a company called "The Jerry Jiroscope...

V2 Rockets

Latterly she was a radar operator in SE England... Dad was commissioned into the Indian Army. One of the...

D-Day recollections

The next morning we woke up and everyone had gone — all the soldiers who had been stationed in our...

A Wren's tale

We were a group of Petty Officer radio mechanics in the Women's Royal Naval Services, based in...

my wedding anniversary

The day the house fell down

During the blitz on London my father in law who worked as a baker in Enfield close to the Small Arms...

War Years Memories

I was three years old when the second world war was declared on 3rd September 1939 and living in Fortescue...

The "Golden Ray"

In the winter time it was easier for Mother to keep us in the house when there was an Air-Raid so Father...