Soon after my brother and I went to bed, we became exited when a large, by river standards, grey boat came...
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Immediately we returned to our accomodation and while dad and my elder brother settled with the landladay...
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All this kept out the shrapnel, but could do nothing about the noise of the bombers overhead, the...
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My father, William, was born in the Isle of Dogs, East London, in 1913 and my mother, Doris, was born in...
The London Zoo sacked all the staff of military age and kept the older staff of which my father was ons as...
The reception was cancelled so half the guests went to the Davis house and half to the Wood's....
Before going up to bed I had done my nightly chore of shutting Paddy, our cat, out in the garden and...
Travelled back through high hedged Cornish lanes with blacked out headlamps. Traffic heavy coming out of...
Many thousands of Londoners were killed during that awful period, and we ourselves were bombed out of our...
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My father stayed in London in our flat in Walworth SE17 because he was in the ARP. My brother and sisters...
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