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The Blitz - My Recollections.

It's 1943 and I'm 8yrs. old,not very old but old enough to stand at night in our garden, nervously...

World War Two in Enfield

Some time later on friends, seven in all were in a shelter that received a direct hit, all were killed, I...

The Case Of The Disappearing Oven

So the meat and the oven had blown up. Part of the oven door was found on the roof of Sadler's Wells,...

From Belfast to Cairo

Next morning, I went down to Belfast to the Recruiting Office for the Women's Army. I worked around...

My German Spy: A Firewatcher in London

I would leave my family - father, mother and younger sister - asleep on matresses in the cupboard under the...

Suffer The Little Children

She and her younger sister Margaret were among those children evacuated to the seaside town of Walton on...

East End Blitz and D-Day in North Africa

At that time we had bombed the French fleet so the Germans would not get them and the so the French were...

Evacuation from Guernsey

I was born in Jersey, 69 years ago, and around 1938 or so my parents and myself moved to Guernsey in search...

Not Too Old To Knit

When Alderman H. Collar, Mayor of Heston and Isleworth in 1939 made an appeal to the burgesses to knit...

Growing up in The War

After the first 6 months my brother and I returned home On returning home to Prenton, the air-raids started...

The Blitz in East London

The lower bed slept my Aunty and all the small children and I slept on the narrow sort of bunk bed over...

The Outbreak of War

We danced in Piccadilly, went to Trafalgar Square, all on foot, and finally ended up outside Buckingham...

Air Raid Shelters

On her return she said she had rented the corner of a field from Mr Ford, a farmer, along with two chicken...

My Experience as an Evacuee, Moving from London to Cornwall by Jim Spaulding

I was born in Thornton Heath, London, in 1936 and my younger sister, Jean, was born in 1938....

London Blitz

One memory of the blitz which sticks in my mind was the night of September 7th 1940 when the German planes...

A Day to Remember

That night, just after we all got settled to sleep, the familiar sound of the air-raid siren went off so my...

Bombed Out!

I was in my late twenties during the war and had already had children, we used to live in Fulham in London...

Lost Toys

My Mum,Dad, Grandmother and I were in the Anderson Shelter when a Doodle Bug came down with its engines...

'I'd Rather be Bombed than Evacuated': My Wartime Experiences by Marie Wagstaff

I lived in Stratford, London and ended up going to Stanway near Colchester, to Wales and to Yorkshire. I...

I Was an Evacuee

We went by coach to London Terminus, Waterloo Station, and went by train to Bridgewater, Somerset, and then...

A Youngster's View of the Blitz in West London

The night skies over this part of Chelsea were always resonating with the sound of German bombers attacking...

Memories of V.E Day Outside Buckingham Palace by an Ex-Guardsman

Myself and a mate put in an application to go to London for V.E day, it was turned down, in spite of...

September 1st 1939 - Evacuation Day

We marched from the school to Streatham Common Station and boarded the train but it wasn't until we...

From London Evacuee to London Employee by Joyce Mackay (nee Allen)

Myself and my two brothers were transferred to St Clair's in South Wales, and I stayed with the local...

My War, South London

In a short time, we three girls were attending St. Katherine's school near Taunton: I as a boarder, and...

The Direct Hit: In Abbey Wood, London

One evening in late April 1941 the air-raid sirens sounded and Sid, Fay and their children made their way...