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Evacuation of Mothers and Children from London in 1939

At the appropriate time I had to lead the mothers and children out to the street where we joined the long...

A Child in Wartime London: In Lewisham

I was born in 1935 and lived with my parents at Lee, in the Borough of Lewisham, southeast London...

The War Years

Thank God we've got a Navy” as we watched the dog fights overhead between RAF and German planes....

My War Experience after Call Up dictated by Joe Thomas

I don't know why I – a Londoner - was sent to join a Scots regiment, no explanations were given!...

Air raid shelters at Grange Park School

Fairy Aviation were making planes in a large factory in North Hyde Road, the AEC at Southall which was hit...

Memories of Pamela Ford, a Londoner from Wandsworth

Pamela and her sister were evacuated to an aunt's at Melbourn near Duxford, where they attended school....

Evacuation: Walthamstow to Kettering

I was a pupil at Walthamstow High School for girls when the war started, and at the end of August 1939,when...

The Friend Family War - Domestic Life and Trials

Walter and Jessie Friend lived in Harrow with their young son Derek. Jessie received notification of...

Last Move

Mrs Druce had two children of her own, Josie and Fred but she also had two Birmingham boys Jim and Les...

Doodlebugs and Rockets

It was Sunday and, as usual due to the dangers of flying bombs, Mum insisted that I play in the back yard...

Nine Billets in Three Towns

I was sent to Glamorganshire, not with the children from the Whitstable but linked to East London children...

Evacuation From Bow, London

We arrived in Chorley Wood station and while we were waiting outside wondering which way to go, a lady...

School Days

Our local Infants School in Manor Park, East London, closed for a while; many children had been evacuated...

A Bathful of Squash for VJ Day and other Childhood Memories

A German submarine had sailed into the Port of London to surrender. There was a large P.O.W. camp for...

Education and the Underground

So my mother was organising for me to go to a London school which had been evacuated to Kettering, called...

WAAF Experiences - RADAR Chain Home Low

Amalgamated Press — London WAAF — Radar Operator — Chain Home Low Gloucester —...

A Young Man in Wartime London [D.Gurney : Part 2]

Dennis saw much of london from the buses that continued to run throughout the bombing. Once the scaristan...

Interludes in Essex and London

Warwick Avenue was exciting to us as there was a barrage balloon stationed there. I missed seeing the...

Living Through The Blitz

We lived in NW London, near Hampstead Heath where they had Barrage balloons and an anti-aircraft battery:...

How I Was Injured in the Second World War, Following Enemy Action

Every Thursday morning, because of food rationing, my mum and our neighbour would go down to Wright's...

Another Refugee Story

In September 1939 the Australians playing cricket and in papers it said "Australia Declared" I...

Boy's Own War

Every day we walked in a crocodile to the Baptist Church in Station Road and went down into the basement,...

My Wartime Experiences

Once Hitler lost the Battle of Britain in August 1940 and then the night raids, London had a reasonably...

My War

The first wave of bombers dropped incendiary bombs, causing hundreds of small fires to spring up and the...

Child of the war story by Marionne

My mother took us away as evacuees again to Frampton Mansell in the Cotswolds — lovely country but...

Back-garden Shelters in the London Blitz

TRAGEDY Not long after our return there was no air-raid alert when we heard a lone plane and the whistle of...