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Getting Grandma Under the Stairs!

So my sisters, Rose aged 15, and Betty aged 10, my Invalid Grandma and I were left at home.We had to get...

Land Army Girl and ATS

However I didn't feel I was doing a great deal for the war effort and the officials wouldn't send...

My War Memories, Battersea

My eldest brother, who was a pupil at Battersea Grammar School was sent to Worthing. When my eldest brother...

My First 6 Years

A friend of my Aunt had been traumatised by being buried when a bomb which dropped on the under-ground, so...

Factories and Fun

This was how I found myself working in a factory in North London, helping to make four-engined heavy...

Hitler didn't stop My Wedding

After the ceremony, he said the marriage is not legal as we hadn't had a registrar witness the wedding....

The Tea-Round to the Air Raid Shelters

When we got back to St. George's after the tea run, it was often too late for me to get home to...

My Mum's Story: Childhood Memories of Northolt

Factories were being turned over to making munitions and day nurseries were opened to take any children...

My Childhood in Islington and Wood Green during War

My father ran a motor and cats meat business, we lived in New North Road and the shop waas in Queensbury...

Home Front

My father was employed in a ‘Reserved Occupation’, working for a company in Acton that made...

My Very Own Bomb: London during the Blitz

One morning, I unlocked the door leading into the yard and discovered an unexploded incendiary bomb lying...

A Child's Life in London

His ship, HMS Phoebe, had been torpedoed off Cape Noir in French West Africa and repaired in New York. The...

Saving St. Paul's

With the then customary sandwich pack brought from home, I strolled off in the direction of St. Paul's...

Evacuee

Nearly every night during the bombing, we were pulled from our beds to go down to the Anderson Shelter that...

Bruno Dominico de Grussa

In the summer holiday which followed, Bruno and I worked in partnership at the nearby Mason's Farm. On...

Life During the war

The horses were kept in stables next door to the Co-op. On reaching home my mum and I went to get some...

My War in East London

When the walls, grit and dust had stopped falling he went along the hall and called out to us all —...

Air Raid on Camberwell, London, 16 April 1941

"Once in the shelter we sat down but we found that all the water had been cut off except in the shelter...

Memories of a Small Child during World War Two: Eastham to Accrington

She came to visit me once, and I begged her to take me back to London with her. During air-raids, he...

An Old Eastender's Boyhood Memories Part 4: Losing a friend

Even the shrapnel was easier to find as output exceeded demand - though, what we were secretly hoping to...

Evacuated to Winchester - Acorns and Cowpats

The countryside was for me a new and exciting set of sensations: nuts that grew on trees, acorns, pale...

Bombs over Harringay

My family comprised three brothers, Geoff 13, Roy 16, Peter 19 and my sister Rosemary aged 21... We lived...

A Russian Reindeer for King George VI

One of the odd things that we had to do was to transport a large reindeer which was a gift from the...

Saving St Paul's

Hundreds of incendiary bombs had set the city alight and as the firemen worked the enemy bombers dropped...

Remembering a Walk to School in 1940: In New Southgate, North London

Old Hitler wasn't going to get us down so we sang 'Hang out your washing on the Seigfried...

The Night the Roof Fell in: A V1 in London

Dad bent down to kiss us all goodbye, “Off you go now and be good girls for Mum” Fares...