In October 1943, I began nursing training at King's College Hospital in Camberwell....
Carrying one suitcase, a gas mask and a packet of sandwiches, we walked from our school, James Allen's...
That evening whilst I was on the bus going home, the bombing started over London. If I had not left London...
Residing in Leyton, East London, I was evacuated as a boy of ten at the end of 1939. Once mother took me...
I lived in Putney, south west London, with my Mother, Father and young sister, who was six months old. My...
My first job was in censorship work in Liverpool and then in Bermuda — where, although the work was...
The Sixth became the 31st Searchlight Battalion Royal Engineers. The unit moved from Farringdon Street,...
The front door was blown off and shot up the hallway, the ceilings came down and the windows blown in....
In 1939 just before the war started, all the seamstresses employed by Harrods were sent to work at Harvey...
Unfortunately the German secret service must have realised that the Canadians were stationed there, so one...
Mum and dad believed fervently in the war against fascism. Dad had been one of those who'd turned out...
I was accepted and each morning for two weeks had to travel to New Cross in south east London to be trained...
On the 1st September 1939 the children from St. John's were put on a train at Waterloo, with several...
Most of the pupils of Eltringham St. Elementary School were shepherded along to Wandsworth Town railway...
There were times when we didn't have electricity or gas and water had to be brought up in buckets, and...
I travelled to work next morning as usual and had to pick my way over a mass of hosepipes on the walk...
I lived in a house with my widowed mother, my single Aunt Doll and Aunt Flo and Uncle Charles, their...
We lived in North London on the boundary of Palmers Green, N13 and Southgate, N14. Soon afterwards I...
I was very young but the images in my mind are still bright, photographs - if only there was a print button...
I was living in Rotherhithe, South East London, between the docks and the railways, both of which being...
In World War 11 my parents’ home was nearer the docks and all the bombing and they thought it would...
Well,we had some adventures,sliding down this sewer bank, on bit's of tin we found.Only to find,after a...