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Childhood Memories of the East End Blitz

The bomb or doodle bug had fallen at the end of the road the junction of Cleaver or Clever Road and...

Evacuation: From West London to Dorchester

We had no idea where we were going but our Head Mistress had a sealed envelope which contained the name of...

My Story: Childhood Memories of Camden Town

Hello this is my story of life in Camden during the war, i stayed home with mum and my little brother, i...

My Experiences as a Child in WW2

We would go out into the garden with dark skies overhead riven with searhlight beams and already the sound...

Safe and sound in Central London

Then the whole school went to Hungerford,Berks and I was billeted with the Butchers of Co-operative and...

Direct Hit at St Bartholomew's Church, Sydenham

One Sunday morning I had been Server at the 8 a.m. Communion Service at St Bartholomew's Parish Church...

Bomber Command Heartbreak

George jointed Bomber Command in 1942 as an air gunner, based in Lincolnshire. Then on 5th July 1944, I got...

Growing up in WW2

My brother Arthur had been called up for the Army ie The Beds and Herts Regiment,my Mother worked in the...

My Mum Saved as a Child by a Soldier

It dropped in a street the other side of Basildene Road from Marnell Way as my mum lived at 26 Marnell Way....

Fore Street Police Station in London

My great-grandfather Charles J Salmon was in the city of London police number 211A based at Fore Street...

Learning: East-Ender becomes Stoker in the Merchant Navy

Learning: East-Ender becomes Stoker in the Merchant Navy...

The Banana

On one of these occasions, probably during 1944, they came back from the pub very excited and we heard that...

WW2 Memories No4: A Sneak Raider in Walthamstow

It was believed at that time that cats would climb into a child's pram and attracted by the milk go to...

Putting my Foot in it

Just prior to us setting off my aunt had taken me to see Disney's ‘Snow White’, the scene...

Memories of World War Two in Southall and Burton-on-Trent

This was Ascot Gardens Southall Middlesex where we were born.Our Dad slept in the house as there wasn't...

"Time Bomb"

As can be imagined, looking for a good time in a period of such pain and sadness as WWII the wedding guests...

Memories of a child born at the end of 1940

I was evacuated with my mother and little brother to Buckleberry in Berkshire for part of the war. I know...

When the Sirens Sounded

In case I am, and in case it is of any interest — here is one of the fairly regular occurrences which...

London Blitz 1940

Members of the staff were engaged in trying to put out the fires and George found himself at the top of the...

A Nurse in London

Eventually they were transferred to a specialist hospital in East Grinstead, leaving room in Barts for...

Young Evacuees to Norfolk by Beryl Lamb and Pamela Angell

And three years later when we were evacuated again, it was together with the younger children Pamela,...

The Norwegian Corporal

In June 1943 during the blitz, Hafner had been sheltering in the basement of Norway House on the corner of...

A Child's Wartime Memories of Croydon

Nat was invalided out of the RAF Jack was a Cpl in the RAF Philip was a Major in the RAMC Benjamin...

Black Saturday

The Blitz had begun, I was nine years old with my mother, Mary Stout father, Bert Stout and brother...

My Earliest Memories: Loss of a Brother and Doodlebugs

My Mum always said that my brother Raymond joined the Navy before he was old enough. After Mum and Dad got...

London in the Blitz

My mum, Polly Bates spent the whole of the war living in central London... The worst weapons to hit London...