London

Early Childhood during WW2

Further up the street, on the same side, was one particular house that had been bombed, looking in the...

War Child and a London Suburb

In summer 1941 my father decided we should leave the London area so he drove my mother, sister and I down...

A Railway Girl in the Blitz: In London

The year was 1938, the time when I went to London to work for the British Railway, Liverpool St. Station...

London to Lakeland

The train journey I recall very clearly mainly because the carriages were so full mostly by soldiers and...

My "Lovely" War

A boy at the Rhyl office had invited his Selhurst Grammar school friend up to Rhyl. I hated it back in...

War with Germany as viewed by a 5-9 year-old.

Every home and business had black paper stuck over their windows, which were kept tight shut to keep any...

A TEENAGER`S WAR:In London

I was 12 years old when war was declared on 3rd September 1939 and living in a Victorian tenement estate in...

Mum's War: In London

During the War she and my father and my elder brother, born in 1938, lived in Bexleyheath, which is on the...

WW2: War and Work

My parents were William George Jagelman and Cordelia Elsie Jagelman. My father was born in South London to...

Growing up in WW2

I continued my work with the builders, and one day I went with some tradesmen to work on bomb damaged...

Back Home in Chingford

The German airmen used to throw out strips of tape which looked like the video tape we use today, it was...

When Bugles Call - Training at Chelsea Barracks

I was born on 31st January 1918 at Somercotes Hill, Somercotes, Derbyshire to parents who were Derbyshire...

The London Blitz: Somers Town

My War as an Evacuee

We were all assembled in the village hall and all the other children went off with somebody and was left...

Wartime Diary of a Customs Officer: Ch 6 - Oct 1940

At home, many raids, Kay and Betty braved them, Beryl and I went to sleep in the Anderson... Home by the...

"A Boy in the Blitz"

I could hear my Mum calling to my Dad “I've got Derek - hurry up , George, and get down to the...

A Child’s Memories of World War 2: In Harrow

While on his rescue duties, he would sometimes find an unexploded shell, or incendiary bomb, which had to...

Childhood Memories of WW2 in Hammersmith

I was born in Hammersmith, West London on August 7th 1938, just one year before war broke out, and yet I do...

Southwark Family Memories of WWII

In the days before the start of World War II, under the supervision of my father who was incapacitated, my...

My teen-Age Years in Wartime London

We were quite poor, my Dad worked on the railway and my Mum was a cleaner.I had one year's excellent...

My Time in the ATS

On the 15th of January, my brother Victors friend, Peter Savill and my mother travelled with me to Euston...

It Was A Long War!

So each night was spent in one of our cellars in our basement, with me on a camp bed and Mum and...

A Boyhood Blitzed by War

So my mother, two sisters, my brothers Chris and Arthur and Jim, all climbed into the Anderson shelter in...

Not Another War

The river was easy for them to follow and helped them drop their bombs on the London dock area of East...

On the Home Front

The reason my parents wanted this was because they were Mayor and Mayoress of Dagenham and were going to be...

Goodnight Algeria - Good Morning Italy

Some of the more thoughtful among us in Algeria had suggested, half-seriously, half-jokingly, that...