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Growing up in WW2B

Food rationing was bought into being and everyone was issued with a book of coupons of various colours for...

Another Use For Taxicabs

As the driver drove in a tow bar was fitted, we were given the keys and drove them back to our stations......

The Blitz in New Southgate, London

Russell Lane corner of Haslemere Ave, Haslemere Ave, Dene Rd, Beresford Ave. My best friend had an...

Housing Issues During the War

The Atherton Centre was a mortuary, and George and his wife were dead there. You'd get a bomb somewhere...

Nurse Mary

I was working in an institute in a TB hospital called Grove Park, I was a nurse and throughly enjoyed it! I...

V E DAY MEMORIES of Joyce Try

In the summer of 1940 the Dunkirk evacuation happened and the ‘phoney war’ was over; my friend...

Wartime in London

We lived in Enfield, North London, which was a target for the Germans because we were close to a power...

Nancy's Story

When she visited Bristol to see her friend, lots of houses had been bombed and were on fire... They got...

They also Bombed Wormwood Scrubs

I was born in 1935 in Shepherds Bush London. because of the heavy bombing a lot of people were killed and...

Hatton In Family Evacuation to Cardiff

However Bill and Beatrice did not want to sent their children to strangers and the family had an offer from...

Evacuation to Iver Heath and Bombs in London by David Sevante

My aunt and her daughter who lived in Fulham moved to Nottingham when the bombing got bad in London....

South Ealing Bomb

On the night in question, we were all going to sleep downstairs in the back bedroom, I on the sofa opposite...

Childhood Experience of the War in London and as an Evacuee

At the age of 9 when war was declared I lived in Knightsbridge Barracks, London with my mother and sister,....

Bombing and the Doodlebugs

The germans also dropped bombs that were on a timer and used to make a ticking noise like a loud clock, my...

A Chocsit Bigsit [part I]

Ralph was a kind giant, who spent many hours helping me get my tongue around such words as...

Doodlebugs in London

After the Battle of Britain finished, the German Air force switched from the daylight raids on the...

A Visit to London, 18 December 1940: Damage, Craters Everywhere

In New Oxford St. the destruction tremendous... Went into St. Mary Woolnoth and heard an address from...

Homesickness and Fleabites; a Story of Evacuation by Harry Frankland

I live in Croydon now, only 2 — 3 miles from Mitcham where I grew up, and Croydon had the most buzz...

My Evacuations

1940 was a hot summer and I shall never forget the evening that we had to leave our beach chalet across the...

Bombs Over London

I came to London shortly afterwards and survived the constant scourge of the Incendiary Bombs....

Dogfight over SW19

Soon after the declaration of war my elder sister, Betty and I were evacuated from our Wimbledon home to...

Schooldays and a Sad Loss

One night following a loud bang and darkness, Dad rushed out to do his Air Raid warden duty, subsequently...

The Bomb That Didn't Go Off and Others

WWII (2) My Auntie Marie, 5ft 4ins, and my Cousin Ivy, 4ft 11ins, were fire watchers together in Breamar...

luckyann's war story: London Blitz

I lived with my parents and my baby sister in Brockley, South London... However, my sister was so poorly...

VE Day recollection

15.00 Heard Winnie's statement, Lord Mayor's speech, hymn, National Anthem and cheers for King and...

Childhood Memories of the War

Then I was evacuated to Port Slade, near Brighton where I was the only child there. In London Mum used to...