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Bletchley

I was in the Air Force and sent to Station X. this turned out to be Bletchley Park... Very few men except...

The aftermath of the Whitehall Cinema Bombing

The bodies from the Whitehall Cinema bombing were taken to the Chapel in Brocklands Park....

Living as a child in Middlesex in the war

My sister was 2 at the time and was in the frontroom in her cot. She was next to the window and...

Life in the war in South London.

I first worked for a company in south east who made camouflage nets and therefore I wasn`t called up for...

Deal Station, The day the train wheel came through the house.

Deal Station — The day the train wheel came through the house. An air raid was on and he decided not...

Nursing at Lewisham General Hospital

I was nursing at Lewisham General Hospital from 1942 - 1946, though two years out of this were spent at the...

Friendly Fire

Myrtle my Grandma was at home in north London during the early years of WW2 when a shell from a battery...

'Doodlebug' on Sunday.

In 1944 I was serving in the ATS on Radio Location duties with an anti-aircraft Battery sited at...

Life with a baby in a shelter

I used to shelter on Tooting Bec Common with my baby... On one occasion, a policeman told me to leave as...

A FOGGY NIGHT

After an initial spell at Mill Hill llearning the rudiments of sqquare-bshing, naval jargon and so on, we...

BELONGINGS DESTROYED

We used to go out at weekends and help clear up, and right in the middle of all the rubble that had...

The Journey Home

I hastily got on the number 15 bus and we were travelling down Fleet Street when a bomb fell between my bus...

A better view of the Queen

The twenty of us came from Upminster, the feeling, oh it was lovely, we stood right near the Queen,...

Cry Baby!

It was very dark and I was nervous and needed to go to the bathroom quite badly! however I stuck it out,...

The day a Lancaster Crashed into the River Trent

When I was 5 I lived in Lincolnshire I remember a Lancaster crashing in the river Trent, in east stoke,...

Training as a nurse

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

The Day I was Born.

We lived in Barking, Essex and, as my father was a refrigeration engineer, it was considered necessary for...

Schoolday memories and VE Day

I was a teenager during the war and living in Edgware Middlesex. I remember walking back to Edgware from...

my life in the navy

I lived in Essex and when the blitz started they moved us out from London to North Wales. I was at Grammar...

POST WAR CREDITS.

Having worked in the stores for a while I then went to be a fitter's mate for a foreman... He did this...

A WRNS Wedding

My wedding was a WRNS wedding... I remember after the wedding ceremony when I came out of the church ther...

test run

First day on the ward 1942

Fanny Gibbons was the ward sister and everyone lived in fear of her... I had to go to the most feared ward...

starting to stay on holiday

Having always been mooved arround the family from birth the twins did not worry too much when they found...

Unlucky In Wimbledon

We lived in 3 Denis Park Crescent, Wimbledon SW20 during the war, my brother Allan, parents George and...

Brief Encounter

I finished my school days at a small school St.Michael's & All Angels this was located in Wyndham...