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Mine & My Fathers time in and after WW2

As L A C 1454893 Frank Owen Sanders he qualified as rear gunner at Dalcross flying DEFIANT aircraft and...

Not Cricket!

I was off and ran into the Odeon cinema car park nearby, to my horror the bomb followed me as if it...

The Experience of Being in the Line of Fire in the ATS.

They were building a new cookhouse for the girls, because they didn't want to be mixing with the men,...

Before Signing Up

A friend and I used to use that one, because my Aunt was evacuated with the children. Next morning, when we...

A London War

Sidney Orford told his story to Helen Kemp at the Summerlands Nursing Home in Westgate on Sea, Kent. In the...

Live Rocket!

He did fire-watching dutyand was on the anti-aircraft guns in Hyde Park London. He died many years ago, but...

Memories of the London Blitz, by Lilian Walker

Coming out of an office on Millbank, London, Susie Parrott said to me “What are you doing tonight?...

A Child in the War

My Mum is holding my hand as I'm about to leave and travel to Bury St Edmunds... Mum missed home and...

My Childhood Years in a Hospital in Middlesex

The one that hit the church throw a big lump of stone into the air and it landed on the roof of...

Wrens At Sea

My Mum, Valerie Mary Headeachjoined the Wrens during the war... Mum was posted to the Isle de France, a...

Surviving the Bombing

Like the day I asked the policeman where the unexploded bomb was and he said very seriously 'In the one...

Spam Sandwiches

I was in the army and ate the same meals as the soldiers... Then we put spam, always a piece of spam,...

Life in East London Shelters

The unmanned rockets were launched from France and had fuel enough to go to London. Sometimes Dad and I...

My Grandfather, My Hero: Brave Action at the South Metropolitan Gas Company, Old Kent Road

Arthur Percy Barber Chief Carbonizinf Foreman, Old Kent Road Works. On the night of Friday, December 27th...

Wartime London

I remember the Ministry of Food in Finchley Road where one official was so rude and cruel to my heavily...

Doodlebug hit Charlton Railway Station

In June 1944 my mum Grace Cole who is now 79 was working in the co-op which was next door to charlton...

A Fighter Plane Shells Norwood, South London, 20th January 1943 by Edwin O'Callaghan

A Fighter Plane Shells Norwood, South London, 20th January 1943 by Edwin O'Callaghan. A frock-Woolf, a...

The Lord of the Manor

My sister was evacuated to Dullingham village and my two brothers and I went to Stetchworth. I don't...

The Day of the Doodle-bug

I was a shy little girl and nervous of disturbing people I didn't know, so I shouted to my brother,...

My Granny's Experience of WW2: Evacuated from London to the Countryside

Now and again overhead Granny heard Doodle bugs and was quickly ushered into the bomb shelter....

'Get Down That Shelter!': Dartford

One of the things she often told me was that her dad worked in some sort of munitions plant next to...

Evacuation: From Leyton to Brentwood

I was evacuated from Leyton London to Brentwood on the 1st of sept 1939... The engine did'nt stop and...

Food and Rationing

'Woulton Pie' was named after Lord Woulton. He gave me the 1/2lb of potatoes and it made a meal for...

War Office in Whitehall

I trained as a teleprinter/wireless operator in the Royal Signals and served in various locations...

Getting Away from the Blitz

I lived in south east Peckham, and when they bombed the docks we stood in the road and watched all the...

The Case Of The Disappearing Pub

She was working in a pub in Aldgate at the time. When the IRA were actively planting bombs in London I...