London

Surprise on Opening the Curtains

The story that my wife told me: One morning during the war when the Vicar first got up he opened his...

Air Raid

Travelling through London in uniform and complete with rifle, Dad was caught in an air-raid and took...

Sky Rocket

My wife told me that during the war she was walking home with her mother along North Road, when they saw a...

Abaht turn!

Abaht turn. The railway home guard were so bad at 'abaht turninn' that the drill sargeant marched...

Joan Christopher's ID

Joan Christopher's ID...

Evacuee from Camberwell

In September 1939 Iwas evacuated from camberwell, London....

Boy to Man

Percy and I had jobs, as newspaper boys, morning, evening, Sunday deliveries, and regular Saturday jobs,...

The Lost Years - Chapter 11

The summer of 1946 was really glorious and I recall the games of cricket which we played down in the fields...

SCHOOLBOYS’ MEMORIES OF WORLD WAR II — PART ONE

Wimbledon College was at that time an independent Catholic school, run by the order of the Society of Jesus...

Mrs.Cartwright

Anyway, I put it in my bag, hid it in the bottom shelf of my locker and on my next visit to...

Undistinguished Service by Patrick Taylor Part 1

UNDISTINGUISHED SERVICE PART 1 A signalman's sketch of what the army did for him during the second...

Extract from the memoirs of my late husband, Stanley Carpenter, about his experiences of London during World War 2

It was my first sighting of London's famous wartime balloon barrage, which was to hang above London for...

Homeless in 1944

Poor Dad was still in the suit he had been bombed in, and had not even a change of underwear......

My WWII MEMORIES

Minnie Hickmore took me to the local school thinking I would be happier with children of my own age (13)...

A Telegram Boy. 1942 - 1945

Some time later, a chance incident occurred when I saw a Telegram Boy delivering to the office of a small...

MY MEMORIES OF WARTIME YEARS (ch3)

Then, just as I was within a few yards of the main entrance door of my office in Queen Street, I looked...

Living Life During World War Two

Our battery comprised 64 "projectors" each of which fired 2 anti-aircraft rocket-propelled shells...

My War, WRNS, - Part 2 - HMS Marshal Soult

This wasn't so delightful as it might sound though, for during the night we had to scrub out floors of...

Wartime experiences of Mrs Ellen Vanner ( Miller) 1938-1945

The British and French were pushed towards the coast and Stan, being a sapper, fought a rearguard action,...

The Gift of a Year

At the sound of the blast John and Gayle began to count, while making a dive into the porch of...

Leaving London For Hever Castle And Other 'Adventures' (part Two)

I never looked 'Bromley' up on a map or I would have seen that it was located closer to London than...

Wartime in Feltham, Middlesex

Dad was dismantling it and bringing it piecemeal down to Feltham, a bit each night on the train from...

toys of the war

My War Memoirs

We had been bombed out of London and ended up in a tiny cottage in a village called Water Eaton —...

A Cyphereen's Story Parts 1-5

I believe cinemas and theatres were closed for a while but as the ‘phoney war’ as it was known,...

Connie Bullock’s Memories of the War in London

Alan, slightly younger than Gordon, who became my husband after the war, also volunteered for the army**....