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My Parents and Aunty

You see he was Flt Sgt Middleton, the Captain of Skinners crew. They had been to Turin in Italy in a...

Our Life-Saving Cat

My father was on duty at Fire Brigade HQ at Albert Embankment, where he was a fireman. My 16-year old...

Tale of a West London Fireman

I did this for the remainder of the war and the system was that, although we were not in east London where...

The Little Blitz and Me

This was a reception centre for German POWs; they used to come in by train by the 100s, escorted by...

Childhood War in Ealing

On the site in Northfield Avenue a large round emergency water tank was erected and remained for the...

Rose Palmer's Story

Film stars like Vivien Leigh, Beatrice Lily, Kay Kendal, and Lily Palmer. When we were preparing for the...

1939 - 45 War - Evacuation etc

Whilst at New Bradwell School I took and passed the scholarship exam. My parents had to select which school...

War in Peckham

One time the Sun Pat peanut factory near us was bombed, the girls were climbing out the fire escape and...

Child to Cadet

On reaching home Curley discussed the telegraphist training with his father who said that at one time,...

Childhood

Sister Doreen, Brother Peter and myself Joy. Then grasping Peter, with me holding on to Mum's back we...

Story - Joan Palmer

The story is about Joan's husband, Mr Clarence Palmer, an artist, who passed away in 1979 at the age of...

Memories

I failed the 11+, but, in 1943 as a pupil at Camberwell Greencoat School the headmaster told my mother that...

The Lemon

Sister Lemon wasn't just tidy, she had an aura of crisp, starch professionalism that swept through the...

Evacuation: From London to Lincolnshire

He said to them that if there was going to be a war then "these kids will have to go away". I...

My War by a Young Irish Lass

Initially, I trained for first aid and home nursing at St George's Hospital and the Royal College of...

First Memories

Every month, same day, same time, we took the bus from Islington to the West End to see my Uncle...

A Fire at the Stables

Together with Ronnie and Uncle Bob, we climbed over the boundary wall and into the undertakers courtyard,...

A Wartime Childhood

Left on her own in an uncertain London my mother returned to her Darlington home and lived until 1947 with...

A Boy's War - London, Leicestershire and Warwickshire

He'd fought in South Africa at the turn of the century; seen action in the Dardanelles in WW1 and then,...

When Were You An Evacuee?

The shop opposite us was taken over by the ARP.It was sand-bagged up and through a small door there buzzed...

A Childhood of War

My earliest memories were of being evacuated, but I was lucky: my father as a schoolteacher at White Lion...

Mrs P.Evacuation memories and home: From Charlton to Huddersfield

It was 1939 when we had to wear terryfying gas masks and caused me a life long fear of suffocation, and, as...

Memories of Serving with the A.T.S. during 1940.

Remember feeling great indignation when a female colleague, much older than I, was promoted to Lance...

Evacuation Horrors and Bomb on the Stairs in London by Betty Sutton

I lived with my parents and younger sister at 9, Montrose Place, near Halkin Street, Hyde Park Corner. Life...

3 September 1939: Sunday Morning 11 O’Clock

But when it came to it Mum couldn't bear to part with us and said ‘No if we are going, we will...

A Few Recollecctions of the War

We would watch the contrails of the aircraft and hear the guns firing and it was perfect bliss for young...