London

When War Broke Out

My Mum asked my brother and I if we would like to go... I passed the medical test and was waiting for...

When the Local Market was Bombed

Suddenly we heard the bomb coming, it was a terrific noise, it blew all the windows out. When I saw the...

A Young Woman's Vivid Memories.

She never saw the friend again because Dillaways received a direct hit a few minutes later. First Lord...

Managing in Wartime

I hated cheese myself, but because she was such a greedy person we sat at the table, my dad and I. My...

Doodle Bug

There I met Claude and we decided to have a game of snooker. We went into the snooker romm and started...

A dodgy 'Doodle-bug'

Suddenly the unmistakeable rasping staccato sound of a German flying bomb was heard... The flying bomb had...

The Day the War Began: A Child in Islington, London

We lived in a block of council flates in Hornsey Lane on the day war was declared in 1939 all the women...

Two things I Really Remember

In The buildup to D Day the ladies of the area around High Street South, Norman Road, Londsdale Road, all...

Homeguard Stand Down Concert

We marched from Hyde Park, down Piccadilly, Oxford and Regent Streets, and came back to the saluting base...

You Never Knew: The London Blitz

At 10.30 we arrived, but there was no church; it lay in rubble, nothing but rubble. The experience had...

Living With Bombs

My brother Jim was a commando in the Navy... A bomb dropped and sent all the soot down the chimney, right...

Nancy Burnham's Wartime Memories

We met a lady called Nancy Burnham who lived in London during the war... Before the war she lived in Wales...

The Wedding Went off with a Bang!

On September 7th 1940 I travelledfrom my home near Watford to attend the wedding at St Margaret's...

Missing out on the 11+ in Stratford

On the second of September 1939, my sister and I boarded a train at Stratford and travelled to Colchester...

Eileen Parsons Remembers Part 5..a change of duties

This involved working with the Metropolitan Police, court appearances and detention until transport could...

Home and Away - Evacuated From Kensal Green to Wales

Living in Kensal Green we were not far from the railway station and next to the station was the ammunitions...

The Day the Ceiling Came Down in Fulham

When the bomb went off, not only was the bedroom window blown in but the blast also brought down the...

The Blitz - An eight-year-old's view

Every evening at about six o'clock my mother and I got a bus from Muswell Hill Broadway down to the...

Getting Married to Stay in Devon.

When mum came out of hospital we were evacuated to Templeton in Devon... It was a bit different from...

Air raid shelter: London Blitz

My mother Hildegard Zimmermann was born in Waldkirch, near Freiburg, Germany in 1908... Her brother Rudolph...

Homeless: During the London Blitz

Rosalind Hensher The following is a real-life story, which happened during World War II. Rosalind, who was...

Bethnal Green Tube Disaster

After the warning, as we were making our way to the shelter, suddenly new rocket guns opened up over our...

ATS and London life (The women's armed territorial service)

ATS and London life. On VE Day, I was in my ATS uniform, and there was this very tall soldier and he...

Baby Saved in Greenford

Greenford was near to all the ammunition factories on the Western Avenue and also RAF Northolt and so was...

Bombed out in Shoreditch

After the air raid we all went back into the house, had a cup of tea, I went to bed and my...

Sunderland Flying Boats

Although we did not meet until long after the war, my husband was a WOP in 228 squadron RAF, and flew in...