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V.E.DAY 1945 8/5/1945

On this day in 1945, my mother Mrs June Wilton and my Grandmother Mrs Edith Cloud took me to vist my...

Air Raid Precautions

During an air raid my mother had forgotten to take something to the shelter so she asked my brother and I...

Buried Alive

We were buried alive... My Grandad was on Home Guard duty near by so he came and dug us out....

Shelter in the Park

I lived in London and during the blitz we used to leave the house every evening and trekked down the road...

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Civilian Caualities

I lived in Plumstead London ,and we were within less than 2 miles of the Royal Arsenel making armaments,...

Cafe Du Paris

I was walking the streets to Cafe Du Paris for a dance night when I heard the saddest news about my...

Whisky rations

But one night we'd all settled down, just going off while there was a lull in the bombing, and my young...

Dad on a Pitchfork

The house at the rear of Pat's home was bombed and Bernard jumped over the wall to see if he could help...

Bombing Memories

He remembers all the bombing in London until they moved out of London. My parents were bombed out in 1942...

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Harry Chambers Complete With Hat...

Britain since 1930

In 1939 the second world war started, it was mainly England v Germany... So England started to black out...

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London Fire Unit...

A Little Light Humour

My mother was in the WVS for all of the war and spent some time in the blitzed areas of London in...

*My Nan in the blitz & a german pilot*

*My Nan in the blitz & a german pilot*. Well my nan was telling me she was in the blitz and she...

School Teacher in London

I will never forget the terrible air raids over Harrowand Uxbridge i was always on alert, especially for my...

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Harry Chambers...

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Harry and his fire fighters...

Blitz

I was born in East London just before the Battle of Britain started so I remember very little of the early...

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London Fire Fighters...

Follow That Blimp

A burly, khaki-clad soldier came running alomg the pavement. He was armed with a rifle and chasing an...

Playtime

As a young girl I was playing in the back garden whilst mum was hanging out the washing when suddenly I was...

Air Raid Warnings

My mother remembers being told that if the air raid siren went off while she and her sister were on their...

Grandma and the broom

When I was small, my grandpa used to tell me a story about how he came home one day during the blitz,...

Memories by Brian Ward

As a seven year old, I can remember the US servicemen at Wethersfield Air Base giving an annual party at...

The First Warning

We were atthe allotments when it sounded, so we packed up and walked home which took twenty minutes. As we...

Calling Blighty

During the war my mother, grandmother and I went to a cinema in Curzon Street to see a newsreel of my...

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