London

Enfield During the War

When the bombing used to commence, Bufus guns on wheels were placed at each end of our street, because the...

Early War Experiences in North London

At first there were only a few air raid alerts, but in September 1940 the bombing of London started... If...

Dad's Recollections of the Doodlebug

She told me that Dad was still in Fulham Hospital with a broken hip and cuts....

Wartime in London (Holborn)

Another factory in which I worked made components, out of mica, for aeroplanes. The Germans would drop...

Sergeant Ray Holmes and German Pilot -- Fighter Plane Live Dig! Channel Five/National Geographic

In the live programme about the unearthing of the remains of Ray Holmes' Hurricane fighter shown on...

War - A Boy - London (The Anderson Shelter)

WAR - A BOY - LONDON THE ANDERSON SHELTER In the long back garden of our house in London we had an...

Olga Gore's War

We had to do lots of marching up and down and were issued with our knickers - they were khaki and had...

My Memories of Evacuation

Originally the school was sent to Chailey, but it was soon realised by the authorities that the village...

'I didn't like the country'; A Westminster Girl Returns to London by Stella Aiken

'I didn't like the country'; A Westminster Girl Returns to London by Stella Aiken. Many of the...

Preparing For Invasion

We had a base in the biggest shop - men, women, boys and girls all doing 'our bit'. We were taught...

When the Docks Went Up

It was quiet for weeks.....for months, after war had been declared and we got blase'about leaving our...

Bombed Out in Infancy

Mum had already sent my eldest brother to live with my Gran and Grandad in the country to be safe, and we...

'You Got Used To Everything'

The scariest moment of the war was when I was visiting my parents in Finchley. I was pushing my daughter...

Listening for the Doodlebug

Even as small child I was aware of this silence and the tension as the women concentrated on the...

WW2 Memories: Childhood Memories of Bournemouth and London

My father had a clerical job with Shell, and at the outbreak of war his office was immediately evacuated to...

Followed Around West London by Bombs, by Charles Leonard

I came back to London a week after D-Day, I was here during the flying bombs attack on June 13th 1944....

Working in the Rag Trade — Life went on as Normal by Joan Elsie Cork (nee Davies)

The younger one went back to our mum and then the oldest one got called up and joined the Lancaster...

The Day I helped Evacuate the Children

When I worked as a Florist in a famous West End shop, Constance Spry,as a teenager a titled lady customer...

Everybody was Family in the Blitz

My father was a Sanitary Inspector and since for a time after returning to London from evacuation in...

Letter from Frank Steggals to Harold Steggals

Background My Uncle Frank Steggals became a Captain in the Royal Marines and sadly died of Typhoid in the...

Being Bombed Out

The bomb dropped while we were in the shelter because we could see all the dust flying down the cracks and...

London's Burning

Parts of County Hall and St Thomas's Hospital were well alight, so I went down York Road to Waterloo...

The First Time I Saw Someone Killed

I was asleep in bed with my brother when our mother came into our bedroom and said the bombs are getting...

My Recollections of VE Day

Then the food appeared from each of the houses; and what food — such things as we children hadn't...

The luck of the Irish Part 2 WW2 Humour

I said to my brother, we had better get outside and try and put some of them incendries out,they were all...

Evacuations and Other Experiences

In 1940 my brother and I were evacuated to West Meon, Hampshire. Southampton was a base area and tonnes of...