London

V1 attack on Castleford Avenue, New Eltham, SE London

I recall either being pushed or finding myself behind the settee, and seeing a blinding flash in the bay...

Evacuation September 1939

The girls I was with had fled Germany before the war, Anita Rosenburn and Elisa Muller. In the evenings,...

Survival

She had to make do with two odd shoes. Spent 7/6 of her 10/- on ‘Digs’ and workmates helped her...

The Blitz

I remember Dell's factory Grafton Road, Kentish Town being bombed, ariel torpedoed. I saw my first dead...

My Main Memories: Vauxhall during War

Soon after that incident, we went to live in a house that my aunt had rented and we lived in that house...

Getting Used to Routines in West Ham: London Blitz

Georgie Green that is Sissie's brother comes in and keeps the girls company as Iris next door comes in...

An Exciting Life in the WAAF

Jack was in Lowestoft because his ship was being repaired after being torpedoed. We used to go in the NAAFI...

Firemen's Tales

The heat was tremendous and my Grandfather said that the road outside was slick with melted margarine;...

War in Burma: Letters Home from a Brave Father

My father served in Burma during the 2nd World War - he was in the Artillary, his name Bdr.W.J.Eldridge...

Memories of an Enfield Schoolgirl

I was a young schoolgirl in Enfield, North London, during the war. When the blitz started we huddled under...

Weeding Carrots

My sister and I were evacuated from London with our school in 1939 and were sent first to Brentwood, Essex,...

What Part You Play if Your Mother is German?

She married My Great Grandfather who came from the west country, Wiltshire or Somerset and settled in...

Mr Burgoyne's Funeral

So it transpired that poor Mr. Burgoyne had to suffer the indignity of being transferred from a private, to...

Nursing War Experience

In between did district nursing... While in this hospital some of us were sent to Leaveston to nurse the...

Flying Bombs in SW London

Expert opinion tells me that it was a V1, as all three of us in the house had time to get into...

Memories of being evacuated in 1939

We lived in Plumstead in south east London.Quite a few of the adults in my area worked at the Woolwich...

A CHILD'S WAR IN EAST ACTON

My parents had been living in a flat in Cumberland Park and had been bombed out and found a flat in Larden...

A Family Evacuated with the Best Times in Wales by Betty Rumsey

My mother, two brothers and sister were living in North London at the time... I and Patrick went into a...

Got Any Gum Chum? Childhood Memories of Greenford and Uxbridge

With the unmitigated cruelty of warring siblings, the Anderson became a place of enforced imprisonment post...

Life as an Evacuee

General Election, 1945

When he did a tour of South London constituencies in support of ‘National’ candidates he...

Unfortunately Some of the Men We Never Saw Again!

Because of the severe bombing I was evacuated to Guildford, Surrey where there was no bombing and as I was...

The Diary of a Nobody 1923 - Excerpts from this 'family book'

I was 15 in August, 1939, and was visiting my French correspondent in Bordeaux when, on the 3rd September,...

V.E. Day

On V.E. Day I was 10 years old and in Grove Isolation Hospital, Leighton Buzzard recovering from a serious...

Dad's Army

The men did not use plates, they used tins called ‘Billy cans’ My Dad was called Bill, I...

One family, Five Sons, All Serving in H.M.Forces

Mum, known as Fanny, or Faigele was 55 Annie , the oldest daughter, was 31 Lou, the oldest son, was 30...