London

A Lighter Aspect of War

Later the factory also had Italian POW's and after the Italian surrender the POW's were allowed...

Visit to London

When the war started I was 20 years of age and lived in Featherstone.I had only been out with my boyfriend...

Hackney Wick at War(in Brief)

As the war progressed we began to see POW's ,Italians in Victoria park And Germans out on Waterden...

Things That Went Bump in the Night

My father had built a concrete air-raid shelter in our back garden in Vicarage Farm Road, Heston and when...

My Memories of the War

St. Francis de Sales school, which was situated next to the Church,took a direct hit and a very large...

Dunkirk Reaguard Action: In the War Office Radio Room

Dunkirk Top Brass arrived with an onterage of a radio engineer from Mullards and all the brains that could...

A Child's Eye View: Scared in Canning Town

The shelter being erected in the small back garden in Canning Town where my mum and dad and little sister...

Joining the WAAF as an MT Driver by Irene Leigh (nee Grant)

Joining the WAAF as an MT Driver by Irene Leigh. Myself and Betty were sent back to Morecombe, our landlady...

War Time Experiences

What made Britain great were the ten million senior citizens who went through the War for a better Britain....

It Started in Cable Street for Us

I had met Felix Whertheimer, auntie Betty's boss who had been one of Adolph Hitler,s first guests in...

Eva's Wartime Memories

I lived on the Victoria Dock Road but we called it 'the Marsh', and as children we would see the...

Going AWOL

Ack-ack units were firing at the German planes and the sky was lit up with searchlights from all over...

My Evacuation: London to Suffolk by Boat

I was living at 10 West Street, S. Stifford with mum Ellen, Dad Albert, siblings John, Betty, & Joan......

The Experience of Being Made Homeless by a V1 in 1944

We then collected blankets, food, drink and a Davy miners lamp to go into an Anderson shelter at the bottom...

Blitz at Ducket Street, Stepney.

I remember him crying with relief at seeing us and this left white streaks down his cheeks.He then decided...

Cont.3 Friends One Survivor

Whilst at Richmond Park I was able to go home at week-ends to Welling in Kent.However this was not without...

Sore Backs and Air-Raid Shelters

There was my two aunts and uncle, and my tow cousins Lousia and Marjorie. Like my uncle was in the ARP, and...

Memories of Tyne and Wear: An Army Regular in Perth and London

I left home and joined as an army regular at the age of eighteen in Perth, Inverness, Scotland....

Home Service in the Metropolitan Police War Reserve in Central London

During his duty with A Division, he was to be located at the following Police Stations: Rochester Row;...

The Arrival of the Blitz

But we did it and were able to grow potatoes, carrots, beans, peas, cabbage and so on — as well as...

In the Heat of it All...

Central and West London were largely unscathed, but the East End, only up the road where the docks were,...

Shrapnel Hunting

It must be summer 1944,my brother billy and me are enjoying the summer school holidays because today we are...

LIFE IN LONDON

I was working in Westminster, London from 1939 in the Air Ministry... We were there a few months and then...

Saved by a shovel

Anyway, we were walking along a road, Charlton Old Road it was called and then Old Dover Road, it was a...

Irony: An Early Morning Job Prevents Internment

My father felt that if it was important enough the Police would call back; he knew very well that the...

A Memory of War

I remember waiting at Southall Station with my mother, clutching my suitcase and wearing a green crotcheted...