London

VE Day Street Party

The other nurse was a London girl and her name was Jean. It was 1944 and the incendiary and other bombs had...

That was the Week That was!

I was stuck in the hairdressers, and my young brother, who was to take the wedding cake from our house to...

Evacuee from Bermondsey

I do know that shortly after George went into the army and despite being a Londoner he enlisted in the...

VE Day Street Party

The other nurse was a London girl and her name was Jean. It was 1944 and the incendiary and other bombs had...

London & Bath at War

From what I gather many years later his initial work was preparing maps for the Royal and Merchant Navies...

An East Ender in Monmouthshire and Taking the Family down the Shelter by Rose Hyams (nee Wolfshaut)

Back to the East End for a holiday I came back for a holiday with my sister and she didn't want to...

Evacuee to ATS driver

The front and back doors were blown off and my young brother was blown across the kitchen. Leslie, who was...

Anonymous Lady in Wimbledon [Anon.]

The Canadian Red Cross sent baby clothes, I remember the first doodlebug on Wimbledon Common, and the...

Two Short Evacuations

We lived in East London and I was the middle child of five - my sister Joan was 10 years older than...

Five Years' Absence: Memories of Father's Service in the 8th Army

He had photos of the then boy King of Iraq and has a wooden cover copy of the New Testament that he...

'Off the Top of My Head': D-Day, 1944

However Mr Wylie McKissock a renowned neuro consultant surgeon of Harley Street and also St.George's,...

Joan Griffin's Childhood Memories of WW2

Rain pelted down as our parents half dragged us up the long garden path, our feet squelching, slipping and...

Wartime Memories of Iris Mace

Because it was anticipated that the station would be a target for bombing, the L.M.S. business was moved to...

Recollection of Memories

On another occasion when staying in Greenwich, the sirens went off one night, unfortunately there was not...

London and Oxford 1939 - 1945

On the day war broke out, 3rd September, 1939, my father, traumatised by his experiences in the trenches in...

Early Wartime Memories

It was then that our Headteacher learned that our destination was to be Taunton in Somerset, while the...

Memories - Bill Farrant

At about the age of 15 I joined Paterson's Engineering Company, Bow, East London to learn a trade....

The Day War Broke Out

My mum only agreed to this as I was to go to her sister who had a farm and lived in the...

My War by Peter G Moody, Childhood Experinces 6 -air raids and the attack on the WAAFS barrage ballon

Beryl and I had just got to the house when dad, who was in the extended part of thhe garden, called us...

My War by Peter G Moody, Childhood Experiences 11 - Return to London February 1945 and the end of the War.

Mum had made up her mind that she needed a plumber in the family, so I was taken to several building firms...

Evacuation Memories

I remember we went by train, where from I don't know, and we arrived in Newton Abbot in the dark. It...

A Child's War in Tottenham

Sometimes we would stand in the doorway, having turned out the living room gaslight and watch as the...

My WW2 Memories: Childhood in London

Mum used to get furious and upset when the Bedford people would stand at night and watch the red glow over...

My Memories of the Land Army

In March 1943 as the war dragged on and wanting to do something for the war effort I cycled from West...

The War - a Boy's Eye View (Extract of last two pages of 19)

I witnessed Churchill driving through the throng to lunch at the Palace, and heard his speech in the...

Barkingside Memories

On the Saturday morning of the Battle of Britain we went to work at the Henry Hughes factory in Hainault...