London

The Cawley Road Manse

During 1940 when I was working as a Methodist deaconess at St. George's, Cable Street in the East End...

WW2 London

On one particular day the siren had sounded so I went to play in my friends shelter in the house opposite,...

Memories

When he came, my daughter said to me: “Mummy, who is this man? The youngest daughters went schools...

My Early Recollections of Evacuation from London to Olney, Buckinghamshire

I remember as a 4yr old child being put on a train in London. I had a small label tied to my...

Mums: London Blitz

Jimmy and Lenny begged mum to stay and wanted to just sleep in their bed. Thank God for our Mum, her...

Flying Gas Mains

In July 1944 I had just turned 6 years old when my Mother and I had to flee our home near Enfield,...

Not on Your life: London Blitz

When looking at the lounge were were told that the table was indeed a Morrison shelter and to which two...

Seeing Planes as a Boy

I looked up to see the sky filled with bomber planes towing gliders along behind them... Yet another event...

Underground

The following story is not mine, It is of a lady that I had interviewed on behalf of the BBC on trafalgar...

London Blitz, June 1944, and Evacuation

The doddlebugs were the most fearsome weapons, flying bombs that destroyed my home and killed several young...

7th November 1943

My grandmother and Aunt were visiting my Mother and I to give me my birthday present, when the sirens...

VE Day in Wartorn London

VE Day in Wartorn London...

From Firewatcher to TB Nurse

She wanted to make a difference, but because she was working for the Civil Service in the Ministry of...

Home and Family:Evacuation from London

On the first day of the London WW2 evacuation Mother left us three children at the Holy Trinity School in...

The Kentish Streets Where I Lived during WW2

As children we were treated to a Puppet show, with sugar almonds in an eathernware beaker given by the...

P.O.Ws in Aldersbrook

I went to Saffron Walden with my sister and we looked across to London and it'd be a mass of flames......

LONDON BLITZ

HUNDREDS OF TINS OF PILCHARDS AND HERRINGS IN TOMATOE SAUCE, RAINED DOWN ON THE SURROUNDING STREETS WITH A...

My VE-Day recollections in Trafalgar Square

Attached is my sketch whilst listening to Churchill's speech, sitting on a wooden case my father had...

Flying Bomb

I lived at Hythe Road during the war, the bomb that fell between the two above roads is one of my most...

My War: An Orphan's Life in London

I was 10 when war broke out and was actually a boarder in Alexander Orphanage which was situated near...

From Here....To There #2

Seventeen in the Blitz

Being near Alexandra Palace, which has two large lakes in its grounds, which at full moon would be very...

Air Raid Wardens in Bessingby Park

The Wardens' local headquarters - officially named K4 - was an air raid shelter in a playing field...

Firewatch

From 8pm-8am you had no sleep at all - walking around the streets carrying a bucket of water and a bucket...

Bombing of Wimbledon

My mother Florence was born in 1915 and due to the depression came to work in Wimbledon in 1933 and spent...

Making Money from the Yanks by Leon Baldock

There was a way for us kids to make money during the war when the Yanks were in town....