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The D-Day Code: Signal Control Centre, Uxbridge

These headquarters were principally meant to test the operation of weapons when landings were taking place...

WW2 Memories No3: A Tap on a Window

When the alarm sounded my mother would lean over the fence, and with a stick especially kept for the...

My Escape from a Flying Bomb

I, of course, expected the bomb to land on the road almost where I stood. I had fallen to the pavement...

Strange Footnote to the London Blitz: An Insurance Claim for Broken Windows

There was however a possibility, The insurance company said that if my father could prove that the bomb...

Fire Service Saves the Day on Hungerford Bridge

My late grandfather, Alfred Blanchard, was in the London Fire Service during WW2. One night's air raids...

Bananas

I wonder if the other local children who were also given a banana have similar memories. On the rare...

The Troop Trains of WW2

During the second world war friends and I aged six, used to wag off school and go up onto the railway...

The End of the Blackout in London

I do not remember the date when the lights went on in London, but I do remember the occasion I first...

Different Perspectives: Service with 15 Bomb Disposal Company RE

In 1942 I was a sapper with 15 Bomb Disposal Company RE and we had dug down to an unexploded bomb in...

Giving Birth during the Blitz

By Jaon Rhodes: Early September 1944, I was in the Middlesex Hospital at Isleworth, awaiting the birth of...

Lasting Memory of Evacuation: From Kennington to Devon

When I was 5 being evacuated from Kennington to Devon and before entering the train a label was tied to my...

Cross of St Paul's Cathedral

Every day during the war someone from Hampstead went up to the Whitestone Pond, the highest point in...

Time and Tide, Lehamel

These could be glimpsed through the openings of the paddle boxes as they splashed through the water rising...

Memories of a Career at Sea

One day Captain Williams came aboard and saw me standing on deck watching the discharging and he sent for...

A Chelsea Girl

The wait to get in the Land Army was six months, when you are seventeen years old there is no way you...

Wartime Memories of a Nurse

The journey took us through Calcutta, which was where we changed to a train going east to Camilla where the...

My Memories of My Childhood in South London

These are some memories of my childhood in London in the 1930s and 1940s And Growing up in Post War London...

Keep Smiling Through

Mum gave Dad a last minute message, to get Gran and my Uncle George to leave their home in Clapham and use...

Memories of WW2

All the Colonel asked me was "which unit were you with before you were commissioned?". When I told...

Wartime Blackheath

But it has to be admitted that with so many churches in Blackheath, the bombing of St German's has done...

Remembering the 40s - before and during the war

Land-mine descends on parachute, settles on a hedge in the village, fails to explode, Royal Navy Bomb...

Autobiography Part 2

However, at the Recruiting Office I was told that they did not accept 16 year olds into aircrew and...

An Evacuee's Letters Home

40 Dear Mummy and Daddy Thank you very much for the letter received on Wednesday morning and which Auntie...

A Chapter in Exile: Memories of an Evacuee in Eccles, Norfolk

As our straggly line of children walked down the lane back towards Eccles Hall we were suddenly aware of...

Raiding My Memory

The few Navy ships that are available are with the little boats trying to protect them but unfortunately...

Wartime Memories: London Blitz

The sky was very bright one night, following a big incendiary raid, reflecting the fires from the...