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My "Time" at Bletchley

Gradually long after “D” Day they took over the signals completely and our postings came...

And So To War

Peggy's boyfriend was a member of a large Jewish family whose parents had emigrated from Russia....

Mainly Evacuation

Stocks Hotel further along Stocks rd was once owned by Victor Lowndes once head of the Playboy empire and...

George the Messenger. Eastbourne at War

George returned to Eastbourne to look for work and was given the name and address of the Civil Defence...

Ordinary People - Extraordinary Bravery

I was sixteen, living on the outskirts of North London and working in the office of a factory making parts...

A Fashion Conscious Teenager in WW2

They always seemed to have plenty of money, chocolate, and endless supplies of chewing gum- not to mention...

Nurse's memories

To return to the hospital we sat upstairs on a bus for what seemed an unusually long time, then decided to...

Doris' Story

Then later was sent to the Gordon Hospital which was then acting as a hostel for the army, where I met Les...

SCHOOLBOYS’ MEMORIES OF WORLD WAR II — PART FOUR

The most terrifying part was not the German bombs but the English AA fire from guns on Prince George's...

Tough times and good times

I was posted down to a station at Innsworth Lane in Gloucester, which was the receiving depot for all new...

Living in Bromley, Kent during the Raids

My brother had already been called up because he was in the Territorial Army in the medical core so that...

A Young Typist at the Air Ministry

I was a shorthand typist, working in my first job, which was in York House in Kingsway, in the typing pool...

Thoughts of a Vauxhall Apprentice

I can't remember when they did get off but apart from a few words from a London Bobby as he eased the...

My Wartime London by Michael Moriarty

Our house was a four-storey, detached house in Swiss Cottage and my mother, who had worked as an...

Growing up through the war

We lived 18 miles from London which was really rural at that time but near Northolt aerodrome. Despite the...

Growing up through the war

We lived 18 miles from London which was really rural at that time but near Northolt aerodrome. Despite the...

A girl from 609 Battery, ATS

I sat next to a girl from Norwich called Connie Arnoup and we stayed together for 3 years. Vera Downing -...

My War Years Chapter 2

Workshop Company - was broken up with half being sent to Catterick in Yorkshire and the other half,...

A trip home and marriage

When we were going up the road in Liverpool all of the people came out to cheer and shout...and they were...

Growing up through the war

We lived 18 miles from London which was really rural at that time but near Northolt aerodrome. Despite the...

Sniggers

Geographically, Pegwell bay was an ideal place for the Germans to attack, it was very much opposite the...

I always did as my sister told me.

Then I became a telephonist in the Ministry of Food and was given the rigorous training of a G.P.O...

“My wartime travels as a child gave me a grand start in life”

Franklin grew up in Preston during the war years, although he remembers special visits he made with his...

Life as a PTI Corporal - by Dore Nightingale

When we got to London, we went to Buckingham Palace and shouted ‘We want the King we want the King!!...

Our Romance and a Wartime Wedding

George wore his army uniform and I borrowed the dress his sister Elsie had for her wedding the previous...

Employment Opportunities in 1943

In January 1944 I was employed by a shipowners' London branch office in the City. Large crowds were not...