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Aunt's WW2 memories

It was very easy to see them because the sky was so lit up with the glow from so many fires burning...

Bus Stop (Chapter 8)

Somehow I couldn't see Auntie Doris, aged fifty-seven, and never piloting anything bigger than my bike,...

Jim Humphreys Part 2 of 2

There were attempts to shoot them down over the Channel or some pilots would dive from above them to...

London during the War

The night the docks and the City of London were fire bombed they went home to find their house had been...

A Child's War

Blackout was declared which meant no more street lights. Vehicle lights were reduced to a slit and we all...

War-time in the Theatre

I gathered them up and tip toed out again to let my friend Eve in who had to pick up her ballroom...

A Home Guard Ack Ack Gunner in London by Joe Carley

In February 1944 the Home Guard gunners returned to London for their second stint at manning the Ack Ack...

Balham to Bognor

Myself with my mother and younger brother and sister were evacuated from Balham SW London to Bognor....

Bombs on London

Much of the City was destroyed although other parts of London were also bombed... At half-term of the...

Reserved Occupation:My Life in Wartime London

We took over the old dispensary, and built the lab from scratch.This meant that specimens from Hillingdon...

One Child's Story part 1

Dad told me that the Blackshirt Movement had started out under the guise of a social facility for young men...

Being a Baby in Wartime

Lights from the defence crew in Osterley Park darted all over the sky and the Ack Ack guns stationed in the...

BOMBING: Childhood Memories in London and Kent

We had just got going nicely when the orders came that any of us who had scholarships to secondary schools...

The Outbreak of War: From the Point of View of a Scots Guard

I was in Hyde Park on the Saturday afternoon and watched the first German aircraft fly over to bomb the...

A Cockney Evacuee

We lived in Edmonton N/London Mum Dad Me two brothers & two Sisters my other two brothers were in the...

Sister Ursula Macer: A Flying Bomb Victim

The first memories of my Aunt Ursula were black and white photographs of her as a nurse and my mother...

From a Prison to a Palace!

The windows in the cells had small panes, two of which slid across to give some ventilation for the...

A London Evacuee in Somerset

Three months later mum, dad and my younger sister and brother came to visit. Bombs started dropping nearby...

Colin Thompson-Things I remember

Fortunately, we went for a few days holiday to the North Devon coast.Whilst we were there the farmhouse was...

Buzz Bombs in Crouch End

In we would go, dog first, me second, Roger, Shirley, Mum and finally Aunt Peg, the brick of the family and...

The Lost Years

Then we got home in time to see the bombing of the London docks starting on saturday afternoon, a horrific...

Memories of WWII

My war began in 1938 when I had to register for National service we have to go back a few years to...

A Four-year-old's Memory of Mother's Death: Bombing Raid in Greenford, Middlesex

I don't remember Christmas but sometime in February'41 my Dad took me to Abingdon where I met-up...

Memories of VE Day

Tam and I decided we would try and get back to her place for tea — however we got stuck outside the...

They Chose Me to do this Job

He said the Directorate of Public Relations, P/R.8, Air Ministry, London with the Air Attaché, chose...

The East End of London

We never went to the shelter every night sometimes the bombing eased off and we would all have partys and...