London

My Football

At Christmas 1943 I had been given a size 5 leather football, which due to War shortages was like gold dust...

The First Doodlebug: Sheila's Diary

Dad would not let me go to dance at Town Hall....

Famous Faces

Whilst walking down Picadilly one evening, I visited a slot machine joint and who should I see but a famous...

The Blitz from Ebury Bridge Road

When the German bombing of London started, my parents made a decision that we would not go to the public...

Lucky To Be Alive At 92 Years Old

Thankfully my dear wife is now recovering. so nowadays, I get the shopping without complaint and giving a...

Air Raid on a Northolt Hanger

Needless to say having Northolt so close meant that the airfield and surrounding area attracted a great...

Wartime Wedding

To get married, I went to Westminster to get a special licence dressed in hobnail boots, dungarees &...

Springbourne Ladies Remember (Doreen & Jean)

At the Corn Exchange in the town, Doreen and her brother were the last two children to be chosen. Doreen...

Lasting Memories

We were evacuated to Kings Lynn in Norfolk, and for the first four weeks we were billeted with a very...

Direct Hit by a V1 or "Blow your Whistle Mr.Levy!"

But there was a small hole between the cellars where a couple of bricks were missing and through this the...

A Salvation Army Recruit Remembers

I was at college in London training to be a Salvation Army officer when the Doodlebugs came over. Some...

Supposing a bomb fell on the house....

Something like a 'moonlight flit' took place, however, and we moved to Ipswich just before those...

Dear God, Where Have You Gone? Childrern Bombed in Park, London

My dad was the only child to have survived that bomb, but every day he lives with that image in his head....

Memories of 1944: Working at the Air Ministry

Our offices were on the fifth floor of Harvey Nicholls and I resided in civil service hostels, firstly in...

A Thames Experience

This particular day we decided on a fishing trip to Penton Hook lock on the Thames at Laleham...

A Teenager in London

There was an English man who had a program on German radio giving out propaganda, his name was Lord Hawhaw...

A Poem for Black Saturday

We prepared sandwiches and flasks of tea, Blankets and pillows as well, For we knew the bombers would come...

A Child in the Blitz

In 1940 we moved from the shadow of Fulham Power Station, which was a target for bombers, to Merton Road...

The V2 at Smithfield Market.

The remnants of the work force, highly skilled silversmiths, were 'lodging' in the workshop of...

Sweet Rationing

After Mick and I were rejected as an inconvenience by Mrs Guy,I was passed on to a Mr and Mrs Parker of...

A Kid in Bowes Park, North London, during the War by Brian Moore

My mum used to send pies to my step-brother who was in the Royal East Kent Regiment, she sent him parcels...

Waterloo Sunset

All the boys in 'our gang', nineteen to twenty-one year olds couldn't wit for their call-up...

Their war is my war

I remember her telling me about running down the streets from the strafing, enemy pilots using up spare...

Life Can Be An Adventure, Enjoy It

My father was sent to Farmborough aircraft factoryWe lived at Cove and going outside the front door one...

HITLER IN BUCKINGHAM PALACE

Hitler had boasted that he would be in Buckingham Palace by August. Hitler didn't make it to the...

Evacuee: North London to Mickfield

When the V2 rockets started coming over my sister, brother and I were packed off to Suffolk to a village...