Surrey

Plotting Aircraft and Driving with Princess Elizabeth

On arriving at the camp we were ushered into a room and sat at desks to sign secrecy forms: it turned out...

The Blitz

When the sirens sounded and things got noisy — aircraft overhead and a variety of gunfire noises,...

The Only Incident That Day.

If you don't know the area, Waddon is situated almost centre between Croydon town centre and what was...

Mother's Sadness: Bombing Kills Child in Carshalton

My mother, brother John and I lived with my grandparents in Carshalton Surrey... The air raid warden...

Going Home from Work

I lived in Richmond and I remember spending months at a time sleeping in the Anderson shelter in our...

War Through the Eyes of a Child in Surrey

I stayed together with one of my friends at a house with a pig and got blamed for opening the stile door...

So This Is War

I tasted freedom! and remember thinking "if this is war, its not so bad". One day my mother, small...

My Experience of Nursing During Wartime and Beyond.

I remember the Matron saying to us: "Remember you are Christians first and English women and Nurses as...

Near Misses

Having got off the 118 bus at the "Horse & Groom" in Manor Road we proceeded to walk up...

Let the Fun Begin

Instead of the expected two showing ‘dash’ and Biggles ‘flair’ in a flurry of...

Childhood Memories

I can remember watching with my father aircraft taking off in the early evening from Blackburke Aerodrome...

Wartime School Days

I lived in a village in Surrey which was a 'reception'area for childreen evacuated from London. We...

Memories of the War Years

My school was originally in Horley, Surrey, not far from Gatwick Airport... One night the Luftwaffe went...

Nine lives

I lived in "Flying Bomb Alley" and as was very conscious of the German bombers flying overhead......

The Firewatch that Saved Beryl Dean

They had relocated from Bishops Gate to a big house on Ringley Park Road between Redhill and Righgate....

Sanderstead

Occasionally bombs would fall in the Croydon/Sanderstead area, but the chickens appeared unaffected and...

Mini Operation in an Air Raid: A Childhood Memory

When I awoke, my leg had a large hole just below the knee, the poison had been removed and there was a...

Our First Doodlebug

My brother then aged 2 was asleep in his cot, I was in the back bedroom, my parents were downstairs in our...

Doodlebug and Spitfire

My earliest recollection of the war was standing in the garden in Dalmally Road and watching a doodlebug...

My Childhood: Cornwall and Surrey

We spent alternate periods in Port Isaac and Tadworth as the war ebbed and flowed but we were in the middle...

Surrey as I find It

Essex has its flatlands and marshlands and tributaries, Norfolk its Broads, Berkshire its woodlands. I am...

My First Memories

However , I was born in Sutton , Surrey and home was Worcester Park so we were in a vulnerable area and...

This Ain't No Fit Night Out For Man Nor Beast......

We Britains were made of sterner stuff intoo much, unless, of course they were our special friends... After...

Doodlebugs.

We always knew when a doodlebug was very close because it made any loose ornaments in the house vibrate...

Stamping My Authority: At the Guildford Command Workshops

I was posted to Guildford Command Workshops, where I was given the charge of the Carrier Bay... The...

Dance before Duty: Memories of the Auxiliary Fire Service

We lived in the small village at Headley on the top of the North Downs near Leatherhead and every Friday...