London

Night Shift

Among them was my father, War Reserve Police Constable No. 592, Alec O'Callaghan, stationed at...

Schoolday Memories of Wartime Years, Chapter 4

We would stand by the roadside in Southampton Way, and when the lorries slowed down to turn the corner, we...

The Crane Family's Story: Enfield

Living at Enfield Lock, we were but a stone's throw away from the RSAF,, in Ordnance Road, where Dad...

The Bombing of My School.

Should any one reading this wish to contact Mrs Coxhead, please do so through me at boxer.bryan@tesco.net...

Growing up in WW2

On my first day I was stopped at the entrance by a factory policeman who asked me for Identification once...

A Flyer's Story

When being trained by Flying Officer Kelsey at Hatfield, he often used to ask pupils to practice a forced...

Kathleen Cartwright -My Experience of Life in the Wrens

After one spell of duty, however, I was called to the Duty Officer and informed that I was to return to...

Working the Late Shift: London in the Blitz 1939 - 1940

At the time these events took place, I was working as a clerk at the London North Eastern Railway...

The Street Shelter: Childhood Memories of Islington

The words were half shouted, half sung by Tommy Carroll, a six-year-old, standing atop a large heap of...

The Three English Brothers French

I have heard that possibly due to the fact that his employer required him, he was unable to join the army...

The Twins - Our Life As Evacuees

So for whatever reason we were sent to Chichester where we joined what appeared to be children from a...

Fever Pitch

Off duty nurses slept in the passage ways beneath the main corridor, where the main pipes carrying the gas,...

What Did You Do In The War Daddy? -Part 3 (Chapter4)

I got there in the late afternoon only to find that my Troop were occupying a gunsite, equipped again with...

Growing Up in WW2: Near the London Dockyards

The youngest of 8 surviving children living in a small Victorian terrace house in Silvertown, London E16...

From Normandy to Norwood, with Love

On Thursday 8 February 1945, Ronald and Marie married at St Chad's Church, South Norwood, London. In...

Through My Eyes: An Unhappy Time in Eastbourne

This, together with the shortage of food and mum missing dad coming home in the evenings soon made us...

The Story of Bevin's Babes: Chapter 4

4THE SUMMARY OF OLLIE'S STORY — With her Father away in the “R.A.F”, working as a...

From East Acton to Palestine and Back

The Germans were bombing London. Most factories had good canteens selling good solid British food very...

Childhood Wartime Memories - Part One

Also the other side of Finsbury Park near Highbury Stadium was the main line out of Kings Cross so these...

My War Years: Evacuation from Sutton to Wales

The next few months were strangely quiet, but busy, with an Anderson shelter being built in the back garden...

Wartime Childhood in Cottontown

A bare light bulb, such luxury when most had cold noisy gas, lighting a dark pegged rug in front of a...

A wartime suburban childhood

A few yards away, there was an iron gate which led into an alleyway, which seemed about the safest place to...

I Knew Hitler's Sidekick

In the seemingly ramshackle put together chapel, Father Foley, a tall ascetic looking priest conducted the...

Wartime Diary of a Customs Officer: Ch 2 - Nov - Dec 1939

22 WED No message arrived from Kay as to what time she would be at Euston, but Mum phoned from Dad's...

Liverpool May Blitz and some miracles, 1941

I had just turned 18 in the summer of 1940 and was working as a junior Civil Servant in the Public Trustee...

“At rest, her duty nobly done.”

- At 10 Countess Road, Bransty, Whitehaven, on Wednesday October 24 1945, Betty dearly loved daughter of...