London

Memories of VE Day

I was born in Peckham, South London, into a family of 6 children and I lived there all through the war,...

Woolwich Arsenal

I got my bicycle and cycled off home to Woolwich market, turning off towards my home in Eltham... The guns...

False Evacuation, 1938

Many people, still alive, will no doubt remember the tension in England before Prime Minister Neville...

Fire Watching

This could have been a dangerous incident because the factory made wooden cabinets... Had he not noticed...

My lucky escape: During the London Blitz

I am 85 years old in July and I was living in London all through the air raids & bugs bombs... We...

Bob Coleman's Memories of the Blitz

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

Life in the Air Raid Shelter: In Lewisham

We used the underground street air raid shelter in Mercia Grove Lewisham... We soon made the shelter...

My War Story

I left school in 1939 the year war broke out, and joined the P.O. laboratory in King Edward building, which...

Life as an evacuee

Prior to the start of the war we had lived in Toronto Road, Tilbury but the house was uninhabitable after...

The Doodlebug on Goldsmiths College

A Pea-Souper of a fog and a miracle for me

I was in the ATS on twenty four hour leave in Hounslow with my mother-in-law and as usual we went to the...

March 1944: London Blitz

I was 16 yrs old when on Fire Watching duty with my father in Fulham an un- announced bombing raid attacked...

Nursing in London

These included two Naval Officers, her Ladyship's son and his friend to visit her Ladyship and take a...

Ice Cream in War Time

We lived next to the Cambridge Hotel, which was very big and had two large car parks.This was where we...

Irene's Experience of the Blackout and a Favourite Skirt

Irene remembers London during the war as a very dark place, because no lights were allowed to show from the...

Evacuation: From London to Maidenhead

In 1941 during one particularly bad night of the Blitz, my parents and I had to walk from Lambeth to...

A London Wartime Wedding

I wrote and told my mum who showed the letter to Violet, Violet answered that letter and told me there were...

War Boy

My father was a policeman in Battersea, and air raid siren was on top of the police station... We used to...

The Sweetshop in the Blitz

Night time air raids were spent sleeping under the stairs of our house in Golders Green with my sister and...

Eileen Parsons Remembers Part 6...Another Change

My posting to the WAAF Police in London coincided more or less with his posting to the War Office in...

Christmas 1940 in Greeenwich, London

A bomb dropped, bouncing off the power station, came across the road and demolished my best friends house...

A young Mum in North London

Outbreak of war: Shortly after war was announced in September 1939, i.e. the same day, the air raid sirens...

Bombed Out (Holloway, London)

It wasn't long before another bomb blew out the windows of our house... With bombs dropping my sister...

Margaret's story

I remember going to Sutton Valence, near Maidstone, to see my aunt. My aunt at Sutton Valence sent fresh...

Sister is born in a cellar

With Charlie behind bars with his rowdy Blackshirt mates in Brixton prison, Angela was left to fend for...

A Young Boy in the War, and His Baptism With Death

I went back to Eastbourne, the next thing that I remember was that a cargo ship floundered on the coast; it...