London

Bomb Hits House in Finsbury Park

My sister lived at Finsbury Park quite near the station....

What Was it Like When You Were Evacuated?

We lived in Spital Square in the East End of London, since the air raids became heavy, my Brother, Bill and...

London Visit

We had arranged to meet in London... On the way back to the station, an air-raid alert went off and we...

Flames Across the Thames

Surrounded by factories all round us: Tate and Lyle, Baer and Ingram, Keelers Silvertown was a very busy...

Irene`s Story

One day I remember hearing lots of noise outside the window facing the River Thames, on looking out I saw...

A Day In My Life

The next think I remember was finding myself laying out on the front lawn with cuts on my face and legs and...

Happy Endings

My name is June Small, I was born in Dick Whittington hospital Highgate, London on 12/6/35 the third child...

Meals on Rations

Whenever you went on a railway station as a little kid, they had these chocolate machines and the bars of...

Whalemeat Sausages

One thing I remember about the food was awful whalemeat sausages they tasted disgusting. We also ate soya...

Homeless in Bermondsey

We were sheltering in the crypt of a church in Southwark at the time.The sirens had gone off at about 6pm...

The Fortified Room

My grandmother on my mother's side, Elizabeth Byron, suffered very badly from arthritis and didn't...

Doodle Bug Over St. Paul`s

In 1941 I was a 15-year-old messenger on The Times newspaper working evenings collecting photos and copy...

Lucky

The small bombs would drop in sixes. The rest of the family were sheltered in the Morrison Shelter whilst...

My Tricycle and I

Jill M and I went to the same high school on Streatham Hill... One day when I was off school because of...

When the War Came Home to My Mother

At the sound of an aircraft she looked up to see an enemy aircraft flying low straight down the street and...

Accident on the Thames

My father, now deceased, was in a reserved occupation and in 1943 he was working from scaffold painting one...

Dimlite Batteries

During the war we found our way around in the blackout with the aid of our torches, but unfortunately the...

First Memories: Dog-fights, Sirens and Destroying Shelters

We originally lived in London and when war broke out dad joined the RAF and I moved to Halstead in Kent...

Alone, Far from Home

Living in Hendon, aged 5, I was among the second wave of North London evacuees due to the V rocket menace....

Story 3 VJ Day - Father's Return, Leytonstone

There was a girl walking there and the sun shone on her ginger hair and she was pretty and I was swelling...

My Parents Contribution in the War.

My mother was Marjorie Cis Durtnall, Her brother Petr and sister Peggy all worked at EMI records... Her...

Me at 14.

It was working on Wellington Bombers, inspection pistons for the aircraft engines.So that was my first...

Surviving in Streatham

My father worked at Smiths Industries in Cricklewood making aircraft instruments.At the height of the...

Bombed Out Twice.

Still, we were again bombed out, and went to Blackburn. Reproduced by Ipswich Museum with Joan Kelsey's...

The Cake Affair

In 1940 when my baby John was one year old we had a close shave with a German airplane. I was very...

Our long summer Hoilday

My most vivid memory was one June day in 1944 when I was nine years old coming home from Alexander Junior...