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Evacuation: London to Llandaff

We had luggage labels on, and I took a teddy with safety pins stuck in him - I was allowed to buy...

Doodlebugs

We had a big, solid, kitchen table and we used to hide under there during air raids listening to the...

A Few Memories of War In South Norwood

I lived in South Norwood on the outskirts of London with my mother. We would visit my old aunt who lived in...

Trip to the Cinema - A Lucky Escape in London

However, the local fire wardens bundled us into a car and took us down to the cellar of a large, fairly...

Exams in wartime

We were rather dismayed, however, to hear that, so as not to be uprooted during an exam, we were to be...

My Memories of World War II:In Edgeware and Scotland

I was 3 and my brother was 1 when the second World War began, and we lived in Edgware Middx. My Dad...

First Day At Work

He managed to get across to America but they did not accept his papers as a captain, so he worked his way...

WAR-A BOY - LONDON

WAR - A BOY - LONDON Born 1938 ,... I was approx 9 months old when ww2 broke out, living with my...

Night Shift at The Admirality

The machines clattered away constantly printing out their messages, some in plain English and others in...

The Biscuits

I was about 7 years old at the time, we went to school in Walsall and the teacher of my class Mrs...

Big Brave Airforce Girl

This is an extract from a recording of Mrs Robbie Lovett made at the Hythe Library Reminiscence session on...

My Phoney War on the River Thames

When war was looming, volunteers were requested from the Sea Rangers to join the River Emergency Service,...

WW2 Memories No2: Collecting Doors in Walthamstow

To continue from my previous story, my father got a laugh of his own at my Mothers expense later, as the...

Panic on the First Day

At the start of WW2 I was twelve, and just about to start my second year at Plaistow Secondary School in...

Evaporated Whiskey

I was not in the army as I did essential work building underground offices in London, West Minster, Camden...

Early Recollections

Later on, we moved to a basement flat in Roberts St behind Euston Station and during the air raids the rest...

My Grandads Experiences

My granddad died when I was a baby so if the details to my story are a little vague in places this...

Doodlebugs over Middlesex

The unusual sounds it made were brought back to me when I saw the film Operation Crossbow.I remeber the...

Childhood Reminiscences of Lingfield in Surrey

I remember when our village, Lingfield, was bombed... The second bomb had hit the village school...

“Those girls should have a medal!”

My Mum, Elsie Trevett and her sister Phyllis Thompson were living together in Palmers Green in North...

Evacuees from Bethnal Green to Caldicote

In September 1940 the bus arrived in our village of Upper Caldicote in Bedfordshire with evactuees from the...

Bananas

My nan at Chelmsford used to grow a lot of vegetables and fruit and also kept rabbits to eatMy grandad at...

Hitler and Housework

Our house backed on to the main line railway from Paddington to the West Country and I can remember my...

The Balham Underground Disaster

When I was a young boy I remember going down the Underground at Balham station on the Northern Line during...

My Father was Churchill's Bodyguard

My father who was in the Royal Marines was posted to the Admiralty in London to guard Sir Winston Churchill...

Married in the Blitz

My father travelled up to London and then had to walk across the city in an air raid to get to the...