London

What a Coincidence!

During the period of the Phoney War my sister Doris and I decided to go to the cinema one evening. The...

Waiting

"My memories of the dark days of Dunkirk do not make spectacular reading. Just one more night....and...

Clearing Up The Blitz

Towards the end of 1940, having been in France during the fall and evacuation, I was given a choice by my...

Shelter in the Dark

It was dark and I was looking for somewhere to sit. We lived in Parton Street in Kensington and one day the...

V2 Court Lane Dulwich

I have been working for almost a year researching the V1 and V2 attacks on South London. . One incident...

Would you believe it?

So he went off and came back with a very dashing Army Officer to take us, he introduced the gorgeous young...

A Boscombe Lady Remembers [B.Ryder]

Her firm evacuated Betty to St.Albans; it was lovely there as she were housed in a girls school. In 1941...

One Sailor, Four Soldiers: Family Members from Walthamstow

During the War i lived in Walthamstow, East London with my mother and father, Florence and Earnest sears....

Memories of the start and end of the war

Uncle in RAF, posted in Scotland. Living in Plumstead during the war — the RAF has a base in the...

wartime memories: A Child in London

My sister was 3 yrs and I was 2yrs when WW2 started. my earliest memories were of going into the street in...

Motttingham

Beatrice Davies lived in Mottingham, South London, duringthe war, and travelled to work at The Ring, a...

Childhood Experience in Lewisham

I lived in Lewisham during the war with my 3 brothers and one sister and our mother, we went to Morden...

A Last Meeting?

We lived close to an area of grassland known as the Wanstead Flats on which in 1944 troops were being...

Escape from the Cellar

Like many people in London, my grandmother who owned the house decided to have the cellar shored up to use...

The London Blitz, Times Fire Brigade.

It was my father's misfortune to be on duty on the three nights that the City burnt. He explained the...

German POW Staying within British Household

During Christmas later that year I had a letter from my sister telling me that our mother was having a...

A Rare Treat: Sausages in Walthamstow

On one occasion, my mum had been able to get some sausages for our midday dinner... In the shelter we just...

The Blitz of London

I was born in South East London, a place called the Elephant and Castle. I remember the doodle bugs coming...

The Elephant and Castle Underground Tragedy.

I heard this account from my uncle,Ian, The story was told to him by my mother who was an Ambulance driver...

Fetching the baby's milk

My friend Rene Cook and I one day had to go and get her Aunt some baby's milk and we weren't...

West London Blitz

The air-raid siren was situated immediatly outside our front door and had not sounded before an oil bomb...

Evacuation to Wales

In 1940 I remember being evacuated from Deptford Broadway with my sister Rene, who was approximate 6 months...

The Broken Sten Gun

I was evacuated as a baby to Penzance but we went back to Canning Town... While I was in Morecambe, I...

Spring 1945 - Eltham/Avery Hill

The site I was on was in Restons Crescent opposite Perpins Road... This was an A4 that had broken up on...

London and the Blitz

My mother told me this story about the war.We had been "bombed out" and were living on a London...

Hilda Wilson's Neighbours Untimely Death

He joined the RAF in May 1940 on his first wedding anniversary - which upset Sue's mother....