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The Germans have invaded!

My Dad got up to see who it was and all we could see in the Blackout was someone in uniform and...

My Grandparents in WW2: Two Medical Students and a Miner

My Grandad in WW2 was a medical student at Great Ormand Street Hospital in London... My Granny was also a...

Peckham All Lit Up

The Air Raid had been on a little while and now there was a bit of a lull, we were scanning the...

A Bomb After The 'All Clear'

As was usual in the little streets of London, after any event people came out of their front doors to...

Bomb in Waller Street

I was on my round and I was coming down a hill in Waller Road, New Cross when I noticed a little...

The Aftermath - Broken Family Relationship

Dad was in the 8th Army in North Africa and Italy. Having discussed this with many others of my age group,...

Black-Out Lit Up

Our living-room window was blacked out with sheets of brown paper... Flames shot up quickly and a piece of...

The Gravestone in Mum's Bed!

The Gravestone in Mum's Bed. The doodlebug landed in the church yard and the force launched a grave...

VJ Day

My family was in London in August 1945 when it was announced that an atomic bomb had been dropped on...

Doodlebug Night

The oldest boy and the girl made their home with us. One night during the war the doodlebugs came over and...

Angel Tube

I can remember when the raids started we used to go down to Angel tube station for shelter... I had a pair...

Auxillery Fire Service

A photograph of Albert Taylor, submitted by his daughter Joan Olive draper. Albert worked for the...

Evacuation: From Wimbledon to Barstaple and Boston

I stayed there a year and then the house was struck by a bomb and I was returned to London after which...

Bombs and Baths

We got bombed there by an incendiary... One day while John was away, while I was in the bath, a bomb blew...

Conscientious Objectors

Bodies blown to smithereens not much left to identify... When war stories are dicussed it is of heroes or...

My Wedding Day, 11 March 1944

The day before my wedding day there was an air raid in London, and, in rushing down the Underground stairs,...

Grandma's war: Rationing in the London Area

But some evacuesse came to our village and lived in the school... We only got one bar off toffee a week and...

A Gruesome Sight in the London Blitz

Her neighbour and friend's house had been a direct hit... But worst of all there were bits of her...

Dark During the Day!

My dad was inside an air raid shelter with his mum,dad and 4 brothers during a DAYLIGHT air raid. Story...

First Memories

There are three memories I have of the Second World War... My mother was bathing me in the kitchen sink,...

Radar Deflection

I recall Evan Cook the removal firm in Peckham, used to recover German Aircraft and often had a plane on...

War work: In Edmonton

However her mother who disliked living alone stayed in London and thus my mother had to make frequent trips...

Forest Gate Cinema

One Saturday afternoon in September 1940 my mother and I went to the cinema to see "Wuthering...

Planning the D Day Landings

I believe my mother, Joan, worked in the Ministry of Supply in London. She was selected to take the...

I Remember the Doodle Bugs

Suddendly I heared a plane in the distance a I listened as it got closer and closer, sunddendly the engine...

air raid shelters

I was 13 years old when War was declared3.9.1939 on a Sunday and i can remember going to our niegbors at 11...