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Vincent Ollier- Vivid Childhood Memories.

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An Old Eastenders Boyhood Memories Part 3: Black Saturday 1940

The siren blared out as I sat in the garden, lost in a world of my own, digging away at the sun-baked...

Flying Bombs

In an effort to foil the enemy, barrage balloons were placed like guardian of our skies forming a curtain...

The Nearest I've been to Death

But before we did I stopped to show May my new suit that I had just bought which was hanging on the...

Our Family History of Evacuation and Finding New Homes in Lancashire by Doreen Lamb

During the blitz we moved out of London to a family holiday bungalow at Laindon in Essex, now part of...

East End Blitz

An exhibit I have seen here that interests me is an unexploded incendiary bomb. We were fairly lucky in...

Wartime in London and Evacuation

When the bombing began in earnest my mother, sister and I went to the local public shelter which was in the...

The changing face of Childhood: Evacuated to Wales

My Uncle was a Carpenter in a Pit and made wooden toys for me with the left-over bits of wood and Auntie...

Childhood Memories of World War Two

In 1939 I was 4½yrs old and living in Peckham Rye London SE15 with my mother and grandmother. I can...

Doris's Story

Doris West told her story to Helen Kemp at the Summerlands Nursing Home in Westgate-on-Sea, Kent. When I...

The First London Air Raid

We couldn't hear any bombs where we were in the centre of London, which only made the fears for our...

From London to Lancashire

Mum becaume ill, and had to stay in hospital, and as she was in the country it meant I could not visit...

The Davies Family at War; Working in the Munitions Factory at aged 14 by Ronald Davies

The Davies Family at War; Working in the Munitions Factory at aged 14 by Ronald Davies. There was a...

An 11 Year Old Londoner's Memories.

When we came out the garden was covered in burnt paper - Samuel Jones paper factory was round the corner...

A Jew in Germany and a German in England

My mother, Rosa Blumert, was born in Zeven, a place in the north of Germany in 1.921 to a Jewish family; as...

Celebrating My 21st - on VE Day!

A lady I worked with, her son went to America during the war and he bought nylons for his sister. It was...

The Night London Was Set on Fire

While waiting for the bus in Oxford Street I noticed a wonderful red glow in the windows of Selfridges and...

A Home Front War: Prestatyn and Wood Green, London

Sue was born during an airraid in February 1942, and Granddad drove me to the nursing home with bombs...

Every Day Life in Holloway

One day, I was in the pub with my mum and dad and Frank telephoned the landlady to say he was home....

Life in the Home Guard with Pikes

The railway had its own section of the Home Guard and I was allocated to the platoon based at Forest Hill...

Recollections

Early in 1943 I was looking out of the window at a small aircraft which was being fired at by anti-aircraft...

Normal Life During the War

We didn't get any direct hits on my house which was very lucky however our next door neighbour did, as...

World War II Memories of Mrs V Garner

I also stayed in Raynes Park, and there was no shelter, but here my friend and I took turns firewatching at...

Growing Up in the War Years

Dad was working during the day, so it was left to Mum and I to go to the assistance office in Rushey...

My war by Peter G Moody, Childhood Experiences part 7 - The flying bombs

I saw the results of a Flying Bomb on the cottages in Bromley Road opposite what was then Perry's...

A Mother's Pride

In 1939, myself, one brother and two sisters were evaquated, because of the war, from Bow, in London, to...