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Crossed Wires: Childhood Memories of Stepney

My father, known as Ike to friends and relations alike, was a postman/sorter working at the Head Office of...

Call Up Papers

At times I would be out and about when the raid started and often joined the spectators on the Thames...

A Childhood War in London and Glasgow

We boarded the Flying Scot and nine hourse later we were in Glasgow and at the house of an uncle with my...

Childhood Memories of Swindon, Wallingford and London during War

Uncle Robert was in the Navy on a cruiser and Uncle Len was a wireless operator with 12 Squadron....

The Phoney War

As the result of her activity the John Lewis Partnership accepted me as an apprentice in the knitwear...

Why must Joy be Tainted with Pain and Sorrow?

There had been a very frightening moment too, when Mum had opened the front door to see a telegraph boy...

A Wartime Childhood

He was most upset about the pigs, and went into the building to get them out while the large cylindrical...

Churchill and the Winds of the Almighty

A few years ago I taped some conversations with my great-aunt Lady Cuthbert CBE, who was Chief Woman Fire...

1944: First Term At School

Every Monday morning we would take our dinner money and milk money to school, where the teachers would...

An Infant Evacuee in Thetford, Norfolk, and Life in Darlington

I didn't like Darlington, nor I think did my mother because we returned to Thetford, probably to be...

Whale of a time

I can remember clearly standing in our back garden in Hamden Road, watching a dogfight between Spitfires...

All the Nurses Disappeared-

The reason the enemy found the area so interesting, was because there was the railway, which of course was...

Wings As Eagles

The German air crews aimed their bombs at shipyards, but many times the bombs fell short and landed on...

The Disrupted Wedding

We booked the reception at Reggiories Restaurant which was across the road from King's Cross Station...

Doodlebug in Chiswick

As the doodlbug's engine had cut out, she said she knew that the bomb was going to fall near her, so...

Big War Little War

There were three bomb sites in our road , one on the corner of Sylvester, one on the corner of Whately and...

My Memories Of The Blitz

So he booked us into the Regent Palace Hotel for the night... All the hotel guests spent the night on the...

My Benign War

In Watford the siren sounded off daily and while we were prudent, no way did we panic, so I couldn't...

A Disrupted Education

Scarcely a shot had been fired outside of the borders of Poland, when my Palmers Green Primary School was...

Childhood Memories of World War Two in Southgate

I was at a friends birthday party one day when we all had to go into her air-raid shelter, and one of...

Wartime Memories: Part One: Before I Joined the ATS

Most of my time was taken up sewing tags on second-rate stock for reduced sale. For Gladys's...

Memories of My Childhood

Of our class sitting along the benches in the gloom trying to do lesions and dashing across to the canteen...

WW2 Memories

We had to be careful what we touched as "Jerry" dropped a lot of small items such as fountain pens,...

War Diaries (part 4)

13-10-1940 Sunday Around 11.30 a.m., Alan, Bert's son, asked if he and Loline could go up to the Golf...

Wartime Memories of a Young Boy

My uncle, aunt and two cousins set out in his car and my mother, father, brother and I in ours and we...

Evacuation to South Wales

Me and My elder sister Doris where picked out by a nice looking couple who took us away in their car,...