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On my 10th birthday in June 1939 I was finishing my preparations for my birthday party I heard the first...

Blow the Cough Away

When it got darker, we looked across to the river Thames and we could see that the whole sky was blood red...

Merchandising

My early childhood was spent in Eltham, south-east London. My father was an Army officer who later served...

Bombing in East Ham

During the many bombing raids made on London, my late grandmother lived in the East End of London in West...

Hess's Fountain Pen

We had just moved to Glasgow in the early part of the war and there were 2 or 3 houses along from...

The Day War Broke Out

My mother always remembered where she was when war was declared as she was "down hopping" on that...

The Siren - (poem)

The Siren -. We would hear the siren every night Giving everyone an awful fright Up we would jump out of a...

August 1941 Newspaper Articl

A rat in the night

My name is Nellie Hall and whilst I was on night duty taking a signal to another Office I was stopped in...

When Jackson and Joseph's was hit by a Doodlebug

I was working at Jackson and Joseph's shoe factory behind Spittalfields' church in the East End;...

Moving House

We must have moved house from Lowfield Road, Kilburn to 28 Westcroft Way on the Westcroft Estate,...

Milkman saves granny's life

My granny was walking with her mum to get shopping, when suddenly the milkman shouted GET DOWN... The...

Womens Nursing Section, NAAFI Home Guard

Does anyone have any information about the Women's Nursing Section of the NAAFI Headquarters Home...

Memories of a Wartime Teenager

I am now 80 years of age and my son has set up a aite for me on with my wartime memories...

Evacuated to Watford

Working Through the War

I worked on propellers for Mosquitoes: I did veneers for the propellers. Mosquitoes were mostly made of...

Our Anderson's Shelter after the War

During the we had a concrete Anderson's shelter. The Anderson's shelter was in four sections, four...

Love in the Mists of War

I would appeciate it if someone could at least glance at the collection....

Incident on Peckham Rye Station

Myself along with my Mother and Father were waiting for a train on Peckham Rye Station in the winter of...

ww2

When it was night time they weren't allowed to swith on any kind of lights not even a torch, otherwise...

VE Celebrations

I remember being taken by my parents to Hampton Court one night for the VE celebrations. Having lived all...

Soup

It was quite fun on the train, my father and I went to the dining carriage, I sat opposite an army officer,...

'The Milks Gone Off and the Duke of Kent is Dead', as told by Lois Nicholls nee Nutton

'The Milks Gone Off and the Duke of Kent is Dead', as told by Lois Nicholls nee Nutton. I called up...

Baldock Fire Station 1940

Fireman P H Skinner sits in the front row of the Baldock fire station crew in 1940. This photograph was...

Brave or Foolish

My mother was in London looking after my brother and myself. One day during an air raid, my brother and I...

My parents www2 story

I was 7 years old,when www2 started,I can recall my father. telling my mother, that as he was a freelance...