When I was about Six And a bit we lived in London east end and one night some time in 1940 we...
When we left the station and walked down Fulham Palace Road, I needed a drink of water and went into a...
However, my mother's family lived in Edmonton, Nth London and we moved in with my grandparents as my...
A week later, all schools had been bombed and the english forces had to figure out a plan to secure the...
Later we learned that the second raider had tried to machine gun the gas works at Sydenham, and had dropped...
I had been watching all the preparations and finally we children were all sat around the biggest table in...
Soon the all clear went and we came up from the shelter and went back into the house. we'd been up for...
Pansy, when 14 years old, had been sent home early from work to avoid the air raids but was caught in one...
On 31st August 1939 the office I worked in for a car dealer, which was next door to Wellington Barracks in...
During the time I was in London, I was rushed through the streets of Stepney to get a train to the Bank...
I went to the Aircrew Receiving Centre in St John's Wood in London... It swung round looking for a safe...
Mum went up in the blanket and fractured her ribs. Family folklore has it that Mum was on the front page of...
I was a pupil at Walthamstow High School for girls when the war started, and at the end of August 1939,when...
I remember one night a friend and I snuck out of the base in civvies and went to a pub... Technically the...
Mum was trying to open the door into the passage that led to the front door but it was jammed with all...
On 13 September 1940, the day Buckingham Palace was bombed, my sister and I were evacuated from Brockley,...
My dad's sister worked at Marconi's factory in Chelmsford, on war work and also at a shirt factory,...
My Dad worked as an auxiliary fireman in the city. We had an alley by the side of our house, and we...
I had three brothers and three sisters, we were evacuated to South Harrow for 6 weeks until my mum said we...
I once queued for a long time and came away with half a pound of unripe gooseberries which my mother did...
We used Earls Court Underground Station as an air-raid shelter... When ever the siren went the air-raid...
During the last years of World War 2, I was living with my mother, granddad and 8 brothers and sisters in...
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