London

More Sirens, Less Work. Close shave with a bomb.

Because London was beginning to be bombed, they moved us down there. We realized a German bomb had come...

camberwell evacuee

Just before war was declared, gas mask fitting took place in the local church hall,. When war was declared...

Memories of war in N.W.London

My family lived in College Road, Kensal Rise N.W.London and I went to Princess Frederica School at the...

London Blitz

The basement, converted as a shelter, was constantly used, one night during a particularly bad raid, I was...

My War by Peter G Moody, Childhood Experiences 8 - My brothers

It was time to evacuate again, with only Ron and Dad remaining in London. Before I go onto the next Exodus...

Never Mind the Bombs, Keep in the Dry!

The nearest bomb landed less than 200 yards from our house. Dad didn't normally get out of bed when the...

Good Comes From Evil: Part 2

Experiences Of A London Boy During WW2

One day my friend and I followed the fire engines from Hammersmith to London Bridge were we watched the...

London during the blitz and my evacuation.

The home was emptied and I was taken to London by bus and then transferred to a police boat and taken down...

Childhood Experiences of The War

I lived in a semi-detached house in Coulsdon, which isn't far from Croydon and Kenley airfields, an...

Growing up in East Ham during the War

In 1940 a German bomber on his way to Bristol was attacked by the RAF, and then jettisoned his bombs which...

A Family Life in Lewisham

I was actually born in Bath in Somerset.When I was two weeks old mother brought me home to Lewisham to my...

London High Grade Cipher School

You can read what happened next to Jessie in her story "Uxbridge SHAEF and London Bushey". Jessie...

From Dirigibles to Doodle Bugs

After the warden had left I had just managed to close the door when there was a crash on the door it...

A Jammy War

Dad had been working as an artist in the film studios in Shepherd's Bush. I was good friends with a...

From Leytonstone to the country -1940/1943

There are so many memories of that church: the Vicar, Rev R S Mitchison, had served as an officer in the...

The First Doodlebug: Grove Road, East London

Alfie, Maggie's husband was away and I went to stay with my sister and her new baby, Valerie, in a...

Arsenal Evacuee Memories

From Stevenage we were sent out in groups — the Arsenal group went to Codicote and assembled in the...

War Time Reminiscences

I lived with my parents and elder sisityer in Norwood Green, which was then between Southall and Hounslow...

Eileen Westbrook

Eileen and her sister Jean were evacuated from London just before the 3rd of September 1939, she was 12...

Wartime Telephonist

Messages were coming in from other exchanges and I heard worrying news about heavy bombing in East Ham, my...

Interview with Eileen Westbrook From World War 2

Eileen and her sister jean were evacuated from London just before the 3rd of September 1939, she was 12...

A Dad in the Pioneer Corps - A Tale of 2 Sons

These recollections were told to me by Mr Fox's sons, Barry and Raymond, at Old Harlow library during a...

The Blitz in Nunhead

I was living with my parents at my grandmother's shop at No.23 Nunhead Lane, situated opposite Nunhead...

Childhood Dramas

There had been a Samuel Jones paper factory just round the corner and that had been bombed and caught fire....

Wartime memories of an Aeronautical Engineer

Hitler used to send some lovely women to England to attend these dances and they would try to recruit the...