London

Brixton Experience

We used to walk up there every night with our bedding and they used to have the entertainers there, every...

Living in London during the War

Mum and I stayed in Hampstead, with the Pearly Kings and Queens of Hampstead... Some of the Londoners made...

My Contribution

I can still remember standing in the kitchen-doorway with the never to be forgotten voice of Neville...

Doodlebug attack in Enfield

Coming towards us, high in the sky, we heard and saw the doodlebug heading our way....

A Female Aircraft Inspector's Tale

When the war broke out I volunteered for service and became an aircraft inspector....

So Young, But What a Memory

I cannot put a date on when I was evacuated, but I do remember standing on a railway platform grasping my...

A Terrifying Incident

Hayes lay in the direct path of aircraft flying to and from Germany on their way to London, and in order to...

War Memories of the Summer of 1940

In the summer of 1940 I was an 18 year old, working as a clerk for the London County Council, in Bethnal...

The Day That Our Home Disappeared: Bombed Out by a V1 in Ilford

When we got out all we could see was an emptiness as our home and many around had been completely...

Don't Play With Fire!

There was a tunnel up from the cellar and an access corridor to an escape hatch in the garden... I became a...

Childhood Memories: The East End of London

I remember going through central London during the Blitz with some dolls in a pram on the way to be...

In London on VE Day

I had planned to meet my friend in London; so we met as planned and had our sandwiches in St.James's...

Starting Work in WW2 in Croydon

For a few weeks I was slotted into classes in English, History and Art all of which I enjoyed until my form...

An Unforgettable Night in Devonport Part 2

Our crew of four, Ted Crust, Ted Osborne, Ted Connet and me, Charles Harwood, did our best to quench the...

Working in London

My friend Eileen and I regularly helped in a canteen at British Columbia House, Lower Regent Street... The...

Many War Time Memories

I remember one Friday morning, my brother came in saying ”don't let Mum out, don't let Mum...

Jewish Man's Funny Anecdote [B.Steinwaltz]

I caught the train to London placing the box with the live chicken in it in a safe place up on the...

Nellie LeFeuvre's War

From our bedroom window we would watch the searchlights lighting up the sky, searching out the German...

I'm a Happy Vaccy by Pat Norris

It was such a change from my life living in a tenement flat in London. I returned to London in Easter 1940....

Rest Centre Service - Support for Refugees from the Blitz

In the summer of 1940 I was an 18 year old working as a clerk for the London County Council in Bethnal...

Life in the Shelter in Streatham, London

During the Blitz my Great-grandmother and Grandparents who both lived in Clapham were bombed out and had to...

Childhood Memories of War

There was absolutely nothing in the sky except these German twin engined bombers, and they must have...

Memories: A Nine-Year-Old in Tooting

First we had the high explosive bombs, then the fire of London incendiary bombs... At night Lord Haw Haw...

London Fire Brigade

I know other towns and cities in the UK suffered with bombing raids but it was London and the London Docks...

Dad as a Blackshirt

I have fond memories of a brief period the family—Mum, Dad and Grandma—spent in Wanstead, in...

Globe Road School in Stepney

Our office was on stand-by for manning Rest Centres at a nearby school, which was equipped to recieve...