London

Evacuated Twice!

But then there came a period of tension and confusion as with great haste the government ordered the...

My Dad's War

Dad and his brother, Charlie, were sent to Norfolk as evacuees in the early war years. Things went on...

Declaration of War

In September 1939 my mother and I, a sixteen year old girl, lived in a flat consisting of three rooms and a...

Difficult Times as an Evacuee family and our Life in Dagenham by Lilly Reed

My mum said that they must have made a fortune on what they fed us, because they used to get about 7...

Those Elusive Wings

Fighter people used to try and shoot them down from the ground, or failing that pilots would fly alongside...

Joyce Mason, Air Road Warden - Billeting Officer

I was Chief Petty Officer, and was marching a squad of girls through the college, and a plane came down...

London, October 3rd, 1940

"I wrote the poem “London October 3rd 1940” published in a book of poems in 1941 and later...

My Grandparents' War Experiences

My other grandfather, Edward Davis, lived in east london with his brother, sister and his parents... My...

Wimbledon Common in Wartime: A Childhood Memory

It was a sunny day in September 1940 and we were in West Place the row of old-world cottages on Wimbledon...

War Memories of the RAF Transport Pool [Mr.White]

I served for six years in the RAF throughout the war, initially stationed in Iceland. There was no bombing...

Audrey's Wartime Adventures -Part 2 : Joan, My Sister’s Story - London 1940

Hal was in the Army stationed in London and Joan worked at John Lewis. Hal was the secretary of the...

Betty Meets Winston: Memories of a WAAF

It was then that we discovered the seat with statues of Winston Churchill and President Roosevelt....

Growing Up in SE7 during War

There were factories all around, like Johnson and Phillips cable makers, Siemens and, not far away,...

The London Blitz: Boy Evacuated to Welsh Farm

I remember looking up into a blue sky that afternoon and thinking that the bombers appeared as silver fish...

Tilbury Docks

I lived at the Station Restraunt in Tilbury Docks, the building was so tall that is why it ended up on the...

Memories of Tyne and Wear: A Young Royal Engineer in London

My father was a joiner and worked on many of the big ships that came out of the Tyneside Wallsend ship...

The Explosion in Gladstone Avenue, Wood Green by Reggie Nipper

A wall of dust The bomb had landed on Gladstone Avenue, I'm sure it was a V2 because there was no...

Evacuation Wanderings: London, Oxford and Devon

I stayed in Devon until the autumn and did six weeks Barnstaple Grammar School in the sixth form, doing a...

Grandma Green

But luckily my grandma didnt lose anyone in her family. her dad, who was a postman, was called up for the...

How I Joined The Army

I was standing on the platform with my friend Tommy Rosser seeing family off on a train. So Tommy being a...

Memories of evacuation

I was evacuated with 3 of my sisters on September 4th 1939 from Wandsworth to Witney, Oxford. Fortunately...

A Mopper's Lot: A Telegram Boy in London

I was 14 years old in 1942, I had left school and started work as a telegram boy at Hammersmith Broadway...

Early Years of the War

At the start of the last war I was enjoying a summer break with Mum and Dad and my younger brother and...

A Life-Saving Cup of Tea

Dad worked it out one day that the flying bombs were falling near where the bombs were dropped; one fell at...

Little Allan: Childhood Memories of East London

My father had gone off to fight the Hun soon afetr arriving in Greece was reported as "missing"....

Baby Evacuee: London to Worcestershire

Lord Ismay was a member of the War Cabinet and spent a great deal of time in London but when he did...