London

The Doodlebug: Cutting a Privet Hedge in Stratford

Duncan lived in Stratford East London and one day in summer 1944, as it was a nice day his mother asked him...

The Night of the Land Mine

A year later the heavy bombing began, and on returning from a visit to my Grand Mother we all settled down...

Buzz on a Bike

And continued to cycle until he heard the noise? it was a V-1 or Buzz Bomb. Half way down Brixton Hill he...

How the War Affected my Family Life

On the first raid I picked up my daughter and ran under that stairs cupboard. my aunt wouldn't join...

Evacuee of World War 2: From London to Upton-on-Severn

Towards the end of the war i was sent to parkhouse in Shifnal Shropshire.At parkhouse we watched the troop...

Children Playing

As a ten year old girl, I was out playing with my friends in the square at Peckham Rye East where I...

Doodlebug

It was August 1944 and I was eight years old.I was on holiday with my aunt in Williams Road, Southall in...

A Kid's Vision: Bombed Out in Hackney

I was with my Mum Kitty and brother David... Mum opened the front door and as we stood there, in silence, I...

The Day War Broke Out

My war started in 1939 when I worked at the Hendon police college which was only for officers at the...

A Woman in Trousers!

I was 18 when war broke out and lived in Greenwich, London. My father nearly hit the roof as he didn't...

Putney's Wartime Entertainment

During the war we were those who brought the Cinema Entertainment to the people in Putney. We came from the...

Surprise in the Shelter!`

What we'd forgotten to tell her was that I and my younger brother kept our toads and frogs in a box on...

Wireless Telegraphy in the Wrens

I joined the Wrens in April 1943 to be trained as a Wireless Telegraphist....

An Incident in Peckham

WE WERE RUDELY AWAKENED ONE NIGHT IN THE EARLY PART OF THE WAR, THERE WAS QUITE AN UPROAR IN THE STREET...

Those Precious Stockings!

We didn't want to go to the shelter, so we carried on dancing, but by 10 o/clock the raid was getting...

Our Indoor Anderson Shelter

I well recall the warm and sunny day in 1939 that a man came to dig the hole for our Anderson shelter...

Assorted London Memories: Working in a Grocers

I worked in London during the war, in a grocers....

From Dagenham to the Unknown

I lived in Dagenham, and I remember my husband making a hammock in the air raid shelter for our daughter to...

Irish Guardsmen celebrate VE DAY

Encouraged by their Regimental Sergeant Major, Irish Guardsmen at Hobbs Barracks, Lingfield set off early...

Air Raid on St Mary's Hospital, Paddington

One of her colleagues, a Jamaican nurse called Diana, offered to swap shifts with her... By 1946 my mother...

V2 Rockets

My grandfather kept a load of pigs and suddenly the V2 rockets exploded in the air and the war head crashed...

Memories of Teenage Years

Instead I was evacuated to St Albans where we had a home tutor insead. When the air raids started more...

The German Dress

The plane landed on Walker's, the jewellers, outside Victoria Station. The pilot parachuted out and...

Evacuee:Gibraltar to London

My mother along with other women and children and men not considered vital by the British Government,...

LONDON AIR RAIDS

The first thing I can remember was having to get out of bed to get into the morrison shelter when the buzz...

My Grandma in the Blitz

One Sunday, my grandma heard a V2 rocket in the sky while talking to her brother and had to leave the phone...