London

The Tunnel That Shook

A landmine parachuted down and landed near the tunnel. We were in that tunnel every night for three years...

BBC Home Service

Because of the propaganda my father wrote he was on Hitler's kill list, if the Germans occupied...

WAR AT 18

I was apprenticed to the International Stores, the 'greatest grocers in the world' from 1941 -...

After the War was won

I do not remember exactly the date when the lights went on in London, but I do remember the occasion I...

The sadness of Sid

Sid told my grandfather that the older man broke down as they reached the street where they both lived. Sid...

Medical Miracle

My father-In-Law Alf Williams was called up in 1940 but designated "unfit for duty" owing to having...

Working for the Americans

We were married in 1943 and the following year I was called up and drafted to the 9th Air Defence Command,...

1939

I am a Londoner, and went to Luton by train... We were lucky in Holloway, North London, and came through...

Tiny and Shiny

During the early days of the Blitz, us messenger lads, we used to collect the shrapnel and keep it in...

Naughty nurses

Nurses on day duty would take babies and children down to the basement when the sirens went off but if you...

Bodies or Dummies?

We waited such a long time that we decided to move round the corner by Putney bridge where we had the...

an unhappy event

AGed 17 i was called up an was sent to putney signals unit , and was billeted in a local house ....

Winston Churchill

MY NAN WORKED FOR THE GOVERMENT CLEANING DEPT BEFORE THE WAR AND CONTINUED ON THROUGHOUT THE WAR, UNTIL SHE...

Midnight Milkman

This particular night we came accross the so called "Midnight Milkman"... his real name was either...

VE Day

I remember travelling to London on the 8 May to meet a friend... We went to Trafalgar Square and then on to...

Chiswick Gas Mains

I was looking out of my mother's bedroom window looking across the Polytechnis Sports ground, when...

Mini Blitz in 1944 'Near Miss for the Palace'. As told by Allan Thipthorpe.

Mini Blitz in 1944 'Near Miss for the Palace'. As told by Allan Thipthorpe. In the Summer of 1944...

Maternity Ward

Early September 1944, I was in the Middlesex Hospital at Isleworth, awaiting the birth of my first child....

Battersea Bombing

We came back to Battersea during the "lull" in the bombing after the Blitz, but my father and I...

Riots on the street

Robert was 23 and Doris was 24 when war broke out at the time when war was declared they were on hoilday...

Who needed shelters?

Whilst in the Boy Scouts during the war we were trying to earn our ” National Service” Award By...

Doodlebug

I let it go quickly and told my mum and dad that there was an aeroplane. Suddenly the noise stopped and...

A Nurses Life

During the war I lived in various places since I was a nurse working hard saving the lives of those in the...

Bombing over Feltham

Living in Feltham, we had German Planes flying over most nights and one bomb dropped in the next road and...

London Docks

I had one Sister evacuated, one in the Land Army and one in the Army. I used to work at London Bridge,...

Terribly heartbreaking job

My dad's dad was a Heavy Rescue Fire Warden and he worked in the East End of London. It was while he...