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Memories of a Non-evacuee

One of these was a lady who worked at the Air Ministry her real name was Kit Logan but my Dad called...

Front Line in the Blitz

My paternal grandfather, Gilbert William Vail, lived in Surbiton all his life. Ray Harrington-Vail Grandson...

An unusually intense game of chess

My grandparents stayed up in London because my grandfather refused to leave his congregation and my...

The Evacuation Officer

He smiled and asked me what my Mum called my Dad,so I told him "Wollocks". "Mum calls him...

A Real Cockney Remembers [M.Daniels]

We arrived back in London at Kings Cross station just as it was being bombed. My husband said, "Hello...

Growing up in City Road, London, and Mixed Experiences of Evacuation by Shirley Nightingale

The last straw We were evacuated to Wales first, me, my older sister, my mum and my aunt. The best...

AN IN-SPIRED VE DAY

After working just over a year in REME Workshops repairing telecomm equipment I reached the age of 18 -...

RATIONING

In fact, to get a larger variety of food, I registered my younger daughter as a vegetarian in order that...

Back in London: During the Blitz

When the bomb dropped on the school opposite, the soot came down the chimney and smothered the room in...

Lucky 3 Times!

We lived in London in Tufnell Park adjacent to the Kings Cross and Tufnell Park marshalling yards an ideal...

Growing Up in North London & Hackney

We had to go and stay in my Grandmother's flat in Clapton Common for about 18 months, during which time...

School Boy's War: Volunteering in Tooting Bec

In 1944 I was a 16 year old school boy at Bec School, Tooting Bec in South London, at the time of...

THE BLITZ

I was married in London in 1940, when the city was being bombed daily by German aircraft... One day as the...

Early War Memories: My Father in the Army Dental Corps

I didn't have many toys, so my father brought me a cloth doll with a plastic face from Belgium and a...

Service with the BAOR

I told the cook to give him supper and then i said 'Hans, bring me a groot teller' he brought a...

Losing my Brother at Aldgate Bus Depot by Leon Baldock

There was my mum, my younger brother David, my baby sister Jo and me — I was 7 years old. He grabbed...

The Escapee: A Childhood Memory of a Barrage Balloon

Then we saw it, coming towards us drifting very slowly - a barrage balloon, its restraining wires clanking...

My experience with a V2.

I walked along Annesley Close, which had houses on the left hand side, and Wykeham School, and its playing...

A War Baby's Memories of Bexley, London and Yorkshire by Edward Roy Skinner

Warm shrapnel I was a war baby born in 1939, we were living in Albany Park in Bexley....

Bombed in Camberwell and Evacuated to Leicestershire by Terence Davies

My Dad was working at Battersea Power Station but he came to see us and met a friend from London and he...

A Close Call

"In early 1945 my Mother,Sister and I moved from Okehampton to my Grandfather's house in Camrose...

World War 2

The devastation was captured in a photo of a bus blown onto a house by the bomb,a landmark picture on...

The End of the War

There were many nationalities representing the services including some Free French sailors and some very...

Freddy Harding's Navy Reminiscences

This was probably why freddy's brother was called up before him and went into the navy on...

Evacuated to Henley on Thames

I was evacuated on 1/9/1939 to Henley on Thames but when we got there they were no billets for us due to...

The Air Raid Shelter, Winchmore Hill

In one corner were two bunks built for myself and the girld next door together with a curtain for privacy...