London

One of the first V2 bombs.

I was in the ATS attached to the REME in Crawley, Sussex. I had 5 sisters, we all lived in Anstey and...

Leave that wasn’t

I was meeting my boyfriend coming back from leave at Street Station, it was sometime before 1942... The...

The German airman surrender

In 1941 i was eight years old and was returning from the school room to the main house.I was passing a...

Celebrations 'VE Day' style

I came to London by bus and I was going to Buckingham Palace with my family... I saw the King, Queen....

The lone enemy fighter plane

It was a Sunday afternoon ,when a lone enemy plane came over Wood Green it banked and came straight above...

Newlyweds in the War

He managed to find us somewhere to rent and live, it was a very small cottage with one room downstairs and...

The lone enemy fighter plane

It was a Sunday afternoon ,when a lone enemy plane came over Wood Green it banked and came straight above...

Air raid in Wembley

A friend living in Wembley whose husband had been conscripted into the Forces decided she would take their...

What a relief!!

My father was an A.R.P. warden for Upper Edmonton,London during the second World War.As I was never...

A Visit to Grandma's

Mum and Dad put me on the night train to Penzance at Paddington. There were no refreshments on trains in...

Russian Army Choir at the Proms

I think it was the Russian Army Choir playing....

Hospital

In June 1941 I crashed in a Blenheim into a Yorkshire Moor-result a broken back.I was fitted with a plaster...

The St.John's Ambulance Brigade in WW2

My sister-in-law Sylvia, married to my brother Mick, belonged to a family that had a unique association...

Hateful Heavy Hot Mattresses In The Blitz

We were living in Stepney in the centre of London. We used to sleep in the passage way which was considered...

In the ATS. One of the first V2 bombs.

I was in the ATS attached to the REME in Crawley, Sussex. I had 5 sisters, we all lived in Anstey and...

Threesome,one Survivor.

Initially story starts in London in civvy street,before & during the early days of the war concerning...

My younger days

During the summer we would play in the 9 acre woods with Exie our leader. I was going to night school and...

Malvern Wells and the hospital trains

Later I moved to Malvern Wells to work in Wells House school... The Americans had built a lot of hospitals...

Getting Plastered.

One day Jills mum went out to queue to buy the precious fish which jills Dad had to eat because of his...

The day the land mine dropped on Sydney Street

My sister and I were living in a block of flats in Sydney St E1... There was petty cash scattered on top...

"Shrapnel"

I do remember coming out of an air raid shelter when the all clear siren had sounded and found an enormous...

V E DAY

I was stationed in London in Mill Hill on HMS Pembroke3 next door there was a REME depot and a U2 landed...

London's Burning

When I went out on the balcony we could see the whole of London was alight... I shall never ever forget...

DODDLEBUGS [V1]

As a boy I spent the war in Penge and Beckenham This area of South London had more Doodlebugsfall on it...

Derrick .In Wandsworth S.W 18 1939-1945.

In Wandsworth S.W 18 1939-1945. I was Living In Wandsworth, and I was 11 years old in 1942,We used to go to...

Morrison helters

I was born in 1941 and my mother and I lived in in the suburbs of London at Eastcote while my father...