During the War I volunteered to join the A.T.S. I was working in an office at the time, and coming from a...
During this period on two occasions I had to dive for cover going home from school when marauding German...
My name is Anne Fordham and I was evacuated from my home in Charlton, London, when I was 8 years old to...
There were seven of us children and my Mum who took the two youngest with her -Derek was still a baby. Mum...
We lived in a terraced house in Harold Road, near Upton Park Underground Station, London E13. We found out...
The offices, situated at St Katherine's Dock, were heavily bombed on the 12th May 1941 — many...
I can remember standing on my grandparents balcony, they having had to move home twice already, and...
I had a good mate, Derek, who was also from London, and because he was a big boy he prevented us from...
I was born and grew up with my Mum, Dad, sister and brother, in East London — Bow E.3 and Bethnal...
On June 6, the troop – consisting of six self-propelled 40mm Bofors Guns, ammunition lorries and a...
Village children went in the morning, and Londoners in the afternoon... Nothing was happening in London so...
My father did fire watching duties several nights a week and was outside the shelter one night, ready to go...
On Sunday 29th December 1940, at the end of the Christmas holiday spent at home in Bradford, I had to...
Our home was in a small street in Canning Town called Elphic Street very close to the London Docks and East...
Being one of a family of five plus Mum we were the last to be found a home and the Lady at...
My mother was pianist and assistant dance teacher in her mothers song and dance school somewhere in SE5...
I remember that our kitchen had a shelf on one of the walls, we were both sitting under this shelf at the...
Give them hell.'' It was only after the war that I learnt that Churchill had ordered Bomber Command...
Often a neighbour would put on the radio loudly and call out to me 'come on Margaret - give us a...
I joined the secretarial staff of Barclays Bank, 54 Lombard Street, London, in 1938 aged almost 17 and even...
Bert decided on what he called the ‘project’: we went together to Wandsworth Town Hall to the...
At night we would go mainly to Fortnum & Masons which had a very deep basement, sometimes we would go...
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