London

My American Friend

I met Michael at Convent Garden Opera House when they had dancing there... The three of us would go every...

The First Siren

As soon as Chamberlain had finished his announcement, the air raid siren sounded.Every one in our house and...

The Scout Badge for Air Raid Shelters

My brother and I went to Kent to stay with an Aunt. In fact, a V2 landed on the Church and Scout...

Doodlebugs in London

She describes how she felt and what she heard as bombs were dropped on London... On asking Mary about the...

Shopping: One Mars Bar Per Week

Because I had a baby brother, my mother used to ask me to go queue up at shops some 15 mins walk...

Peace

I was just 10 years old on 8th May 1945 so I had few recollections of peace but I had heard adults...

Diary Of A Teenagers Experiences During The Blitz In London

I was at the tender age of fourteen, when, a string of bombs dropped over the area of Kensington in London...

Evacuation

I was 9 years old in June 1944 and had been evacuated from Chelsea London in 1940 to escape the bombs.I was...

A Narrow Escape - The Athenia

On Sunday September 3rd 1939, the first casualty of the war was the sinking of the Athenia... They had...

Crossed Lines

Living in Central London, I was then put to work in Holborn... A letter of appreciation was sent to our...

One Child's War: Running Away and Games of Cards

Games of cards, down the air-raid shelter and collecting schrapnel, which was pieces of bombs or rockets......

1939 - 1945 Wartime Experience: W H Smith and the Royal Fusiliers

My Father was a railway employee with the Great Northern Railway, working at Kings Cross goods department...

The V1 at Lewisham, 1944

Buried in our Anderson Shelter

She came to the house to make sure we were OK and found that the debris from the bombing had completely...

Blitz 1940

One night the area around his home was subjected to an intense bombardment by German aircraft dropping both...

War Day 1 11.10 am

My doll's pram was in the vestibule at the bottom of the stairs - with wonderful light coming in...

My Father's Story Blitz 1940

My Father lived with his mother in South East London. He had closed up his home and moved his mother to the...

Del's Story

I was 10 years old and because of the shortage of beds I had to sleep with an old boy of 78,...

Our Family Miracle

My brother and I had been evacuated from SE London to Dorking in Surrey... He explained that a customer,...

The Blitz in New Cross

Realizing how foolish it was to hide in a glass telephone booth, I ran out again and lay in the gutter with...

Working in London

Jack was living in London when war broke out... He vividly remembers the ground "bounmcing" up and...

My First Memory

I see a 3 year old sitting in a high chair in hospital, scrubbing the table with a piece of apple and...

Scottish man has a lucky escape at Tilbury

In June 1944 we travelled from Tilbury in London to the Normandy landing on Gold Beach on an American...

WW2 in Staines as a Small Boy

I was then packed of with my nanny to my Grandmothers in Cardiff while Mum stayed on to make sure that the...

Doreen's Evacuation

The rest of the family were seperated except for Mum, Dad, my brother, my sister, and myself... Dad stayed...

Evacuee Memories

In 1941 I left Wilsden in London as an evacuee to go into Wales... Two years later my Mum arrived in Wales...