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Doodlebugs - Beckenham to Thurnscoe

Because the end of the War was obviously not too distant people carried on with their lives, listening for...

“Hitler bombed my Beano Annual”

Hitler's new miracle weapons, VI bombs first landed on London in June 1944. At the time my family, Mum...

Pram Cinema

The selected shelters were visited every week,I mind we gave a show in Brayards road peckham a railway arch...

The ATS in Wartime Northamton - part 1

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

Evacuee: From Clapham to Oxford

But they now had a shelter, so I felt a bit better Dad was ‘digging for victory’; I was pleased...

Evacuation from London

During World War 2, my sister Margaret who was just 2, my brother Ken who was nearly 7, and me aged 9,...

... it never did me any harm :-)

I lived with my gran in Wilsons Road, Hammersmith and mum lived with aunt Aggy and Molly in Aspenlea Road,...

My Mother's War

My mother had lots of boyfriends including a biker who took part in speedway races at Wimbledon Stadium,...

Rickie's Story

I was born in London of Italian parents and my life changed when World War II started, as it did for...

WW2: A Brief Personal History

I was about to start my third year at the Sir George Monoux Grammar School in Chingford when we were...

First WAAF Experiences

Once at Linton I was immediately issued with a complete WAAF uniform — black lace-up shoes, grey...

From Tottenham to Tuddenham

There was a crater in Tuddenham and the windows of my sister's bedroom were shattered. So, I often...

Buried Alive: A Landmine in London

When I next became conscious I was buried beneath the rubble of what had been no 42 Wordsworth Avenue, and...

Doris Terry's Story

Les was stationed in Whitehall and was living with my mum and dad in Cornwall Street where Pimlico Modern...

Evacuation: A Happy Childhood

But my sister and I boarded a Steam train and after what seemed like hours and hours we reached our...

Misty Memories of My Life during and after the War

There were plenty of bombsites where we played,American solders,and rationing.Mum kept chickens which came...

Continuation of "3 friends one survivor"

The three of us lived in New Cross south-east London.We were aware of the first attack on greater London...

Letter to My Grandson Ben From Granny Eileen Crane.

I arranged to meet Greataunt Min in Oxford Street to buy material, but that night Hitler decided to bomb...

Joining the W.A.A.F. and Training at West Drayton 1940 by Mary Blood (nee Pettit)

Joining the W.A.A.F. and Training at West Drayton 1940 by Mary Blood. Mary's story, together with the...

Our Day Centre has lots of Memories

A Town Hall in London ANNIE TOOKE kept War Diaries of London when she worked at the Town Hall on Report and...

An Evacuee's Story: All Around the Country but Always Back to London

But by Xmas we were soon sent back to London again, as Brighton was thought to be an obvious landing for...

My Blitz Experience

At this point my husband thought I should go home to Norwich as it would be safer and what happened but...

A Little Girl's Wartime Memories of London and Buckinghamshire

It must have been at the start of the London blitz in 1940 that he insisted that I, accompanied by my...

Demobilisation and return to the U.K. by Edna Stafford (nee Hodgson)

There were only six of us in the W.A.A.F. who were home for demobilisation, the rest being A.T.S. girls, so...

Kindness and Friendship

We then moved to Walton by Kimcote as we already had some relatives that had moved to the village, but they...

War Snippets

Many interesting people travelled, I can remember a few i.e. Jessie Matthews, Sunny Hale, Robert Newton an...