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My Wartime Memories

We had a Morrison shelter indoors and slept in there for the duration of the war... I used to travel from...

My Wartime Story

My father and uncle both worked for the same company of ‘E.R.Watts & Co’ in Camberwell...

A WOMAN IN A MAN'S WORLD

I was a shy, timid 23 year old girl living in Islington in London when I had to give up my job...

The Newspaper Boy

Living in Coombe Road, my newspaper round took me up past Upper Sydenham railway station... Shaken up, but...

The Explosion at the New Cross Empire, New Cross, South London by William Thomas Hooker

The Explosion at the New Cross Empire, New Cross, South London by William Thomas Hooker. There was a famous...

Childhood friends

Whilst he and his sister Betty used to love visiting their cousins and playing the usual childhood games...

A Doodlebug Raid in South London, 1944 by Audrey Trudgill

When I heard a doodlebug, I used to shout for my mother, who would run out into the garden and pick up...

Children in the War Years

In 1942 a group of us formed the CVH CHILDRENS VOLUNTARY HELPERS... The whole thing was rather ironic...

London Alight

I lived in Hackney, East London, near to the common and parks, where guns and searchlights were...

Arthur Pascoe and the Home Guard

Ever since the Great War, when he learned to play the fife and clarinet, he had played in a Territorial...

Spiders in the Shelter

I remember being really scared of the spiders in the shelter, one old lady wouldn't let us kill them. I...

Stringing Up the Spies

I was a language shorthand typist working on Ham Common, near Richmond upon Thames, from 1940-45... My job...

Eileen Parsons Remembers Part 4...remustering

In 1941 the Air Ministry decided to set up a WAAF Police Force to protect and deal with problems arising...

Lighting up the City of London

The Germans had launched an air attack and were shelling incendiaries over the City of London... The...

Bonfires across England

This appealed to me as I was awaiting 'call-up'. I worked in the Forest for just over two months...

Bombing of Guinness Trust flats, Chelsea.

I am writing in regard to the bombing of the Guinness Trust flats in Chelsea, London, on the night of the...

Brief History

A brief history is: I joined the Territorial Army in 1937, more or less on leaving school, in a local RE...

V2 Flying Bombs

I was born during the last war and my mother took me over to visit my Great Grand parents before visiting a...

Spectacular Aircraft Crashes

During WW2 I lived with my family in Northolt, Middlesex, quite close to the Northolt Aerodrome, which at...

Margery's Story: Working in a Naafi and for Frigidaire in Wembley

I worked for Frigidaire at the North Wembley factory and during this time I was in pub called the Intrepid...

London Blitz

We stayed at a pub on the side of the River Kennet... As he carried me across the road he looked up...

Harry the London Evacuee

During the war our school Deansfield Rd School Eltham decided to evacuate its pupils. As the school was...

I Remember

We caught a tram from old kent road to Waterloo Station where we caught a train and ended up at Yeovil...

A Lucky Escape

I was working in the Paymaster General's Office near Millbank. There had been a great deal of activity...

Plumstead Baths and a Tragic Birthday by Ellen Searle

On October 8, 1940, it was his birthday, and we decided to commemorate it by going swimming in Plumstead...

Flanders Road Bombing

The bomb fell in Flanders Road, number 5....