Surrey

Our Family Miracle

My brother and I had been evacuated from SE London to Dorking in Surrey... He explained that a customer,...

Wartime Memories: Lingfield Village School

As we approached Lingfield village school, the siren sounded and, immediately, a German plane flew over...

THE DAY GRANNY HID UNDER THE TABLE

We lived in a detached house at the top of the hill in a new suburb of Croydon.Before the bombing started...

Hugh Northern as a boy, South Croydon

Oil fires had been lit on adjacent farmland to attract enemy bombers to drop bombs away from Surrey Docks...

My Time as a Leading Aircrafts Woman

During the war my role was as a supplier for parachute droppers, dinghies, food, canned water etc. I worked...

Girl Guides helping the War effort

At one point we joined in laying a mile of pennies along the main road between Coulsdon and Purley for the...

A Hotel in Wartime: Sutton, in Surrey

When war broke out-I was in norfolk-at my grandmothers hotel in Norfolk-soon after that I went home to by...

Evacuation

I remember, in the late evening when the London blitz had started, kneeling on my bed with my brother, aged...

Life in the Land Army

The merchant navy and the land army never got a gratuity at the endof the war... . I remember a black and...

Long John Silver

My father brought home one day 13 chickens although because one was lame, we decided to name this one...

My Wartime Youth: A Thwarted Doodlebug in Ewell

Living in Ewell, we were bombed and had one of the first doodle bugs which exploded in Riverholme Drive,...

A Night to remember: A V1 over Bushey Park

We invited them join us in the Lensbury Club and in return they invited our staff to the concerts at Bushey...

Alarm Bells Ringing in Woking!

John, his eldest son was so concerned that he wanted to remove the valves out of the bicycle tyres, in case...

Spies in Ewell?

We lived in West Ewell Surrey and our house backed onto a playing field and wartime allotments. Our garden...

Doodle Bug

As lads, we played football in our local park, Collingwood Road, the home of Sutton United. Sutton had many...

VE Day and VJ Day

The occupying allied forces in Europe were still at risk; the fiance of of one my seniors was killed in...

Gwen Green's 'near misses' experiences

Another time, we dashed home from work when some sticker bombs came down... One of the bombs landed in the...

German Bombing

After the bombing dad came mighty quick to pick me up in his upright Armstrong Siddeley... She was a superb...

Unauthorized Leave

I came out onto the main Yatesbury road and was lucky enough to get a hitch to Guildford,, where I got onto...

Friend or Foe?

We soon learnt to distinguish between out planes and the German ones.The later mad a noisier deeper...

The bomber that didn't quite

We ran to the bay window in time to see a German bomber drop of couple of bombs at the railway line...

When the Doodlebug Hit the school

In 1944 I was living in Yew Tree flats in the Horsham Road Cranleigh and on one Sunday morning lying in bed...

Wartime Marriage

My name is Roland the youngest son of Jimmy and Daphne Coombes.My parents first met in 1941 at a public...

Too Close - Childhood Memory

We lived in a big house in the country south of London, and a long way from even a village. Whilst only...

The Hut That Saved My Life

Before the war, my parents had a caravan and hut at Pevensey, Sussex... - - - When the Flying Bombs...

A Near-Miss at Tea-Time.

It was a sunny Sunday afternoon in Autumn in New Malden, Surrey. The only logical answer was that the...