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Family Bombed Out in Streatham, London

We got them under control; then at 8:45 Percy went to the front door to see that the fire hadn't sprung...

A Night Visitor with a Difference

Bearing with smell of a younger brother's feet in one's face, or a curled-up toddler in a damp...

1939 and Beyond: Evacuation from London to South Wales

My father dug a large hole in our garden, in preparation for the Anderson shelter at our London home....

Growing Up through War and Giving a Hand on the Land

We lived 18 miles from London which was really rural at that time but near Northolt aerodrome. Despite the...

Evacuation to the Isle of Wight

We stayed there no more than a couple of weeks and then moved down to the Isle of Wight, to my...

A Child’s Eye View Of World War 2: Chiswick

Within a year my beloved father was called up and joined the Royal Navy the outstanding memory of that...

The Evacuee part 1

In 1933 we moved to 14 Wimbourne St Shoreditch where my brother Alfie was born in 1934,in 1935 we moved to...

A Teenager's War

I started my apprenticeship in the summer of 1942 in a shipyard in the London docks. In Hyde Park there was...

Bombed Out

"Come up here Ann, it's lovely and quiet, no bombs no sirens", said my sister-in-law Dorrie....

The Bomb!

Mum and Dad had some old Polish friends they used to play cards with and with all the disturbance had lost...

Encounter with a Flying Bomb

The usual procedure of the Bomb's journey was; leaving the French Coast with enough jet fuel to take it...

Evacuation - a personal reminiscence: From London to Shepton Beauchamp

I remember the day when our hearts were raised, the day when one of the villagers said to Mum...

Joining the D.E.M.S.

Very many years later in peacetime, my wife and I were on holiday on the Isle of Wight, we were up on...

Evacuation in 1944: Kingston-upon-Thames to Hinckley

My eldest sister Margaret recalled that she was placed with a Mrs Munton, she had a daughter younger than...

London Blitz - I was there

Hundreds.Now I was right in the middle of this, doing my turn of duty at my firm's depot which happens...

A Near Miss: London During The Blitz

As you walked down our Clapham street, the red beach tree in the small front garden behind the dusty...

My Childhood Memories of the Home Front during World War Two

Later, Dad was posted abroad, and although the British Forces were not to tell anyone where they were...

A Boy in War: Brixton Hill, South London

The Battle of Britain, in the summer of 1940,and the London Blitz in 1941 took place, During the London...

A Kaleidescope of Characters

We learned that Winnie and Ron, on a visit to an aunt living nearby, took shelter in the Anderson dugout in...

Whatever will be will be

My friend Joan and I used to go to evening classes to learn ballroom dancing. Joan was my bridesmaid, but...

London During the War

My flat mate Isobel from Belfast and I went to the Highgate Village underground shelter every night —...

North London during the Blitz

But eventually, anti-aircraft guns were put in place all around London and when they started to fire, all...

My life 1939-1945: Growing Up in Woolwich

My mother approached the lady whose house we were staying at and asked her where we were, her reply...

My experiences in the food office and the Heavy ACK ACK

I was almost 22years old 'the day war broke out' I was working for Jackson Stops and Staffin Curzon...

Life and the Struggles of the London Blitz - Rose Ayriss

My house was in that area, and we all knew what to expect as soon as darkness fell and the German bombers...

The War in Homerton High Street (London)

We got married on Christmas day in a Church that had had its roof blown off a few days before that, we...