Surrey

A Schoolgirl in WW2

Living in Ashtead it was said that the Germans unloaded their bombs there if they had missed their targets...

Events Remembered by a Young Boy

We used to stand and watch the German bomber squadrons arriving over Guildford, Surrey in 1941/42 and use...

Close Encounters: Unexploded Bombs and Crashing Aircraft in Surrey

With my brother Bob having been the first in our family to suffer a near miss when the falling...

Memories of Bagshot Park [P.Gibson]

It was June 1940, I had just reached my 15th birthday, when my mother deposited me at Bagshot Park, the...

Life accepted as normal by an 8-year-old from 1940 to 1942

I was told there was no panic, my cousin went immediately to her post - outside the door of the room where...

Bombs in Meadvale

I'm an Air Raid Warden". "A bomb has gone off in your back garden". It appears that a...

Evacuation: To the Church in Ewell

Eventually we were told the bomb which had landed in Seaforth Gardens, but not exploded, was a dud. P.S....

Gas Holder on Fire, February 1944: Home Guard Bravery in Walton-on-Thames

When they reached the top they found that the tubs of clay which had been placed around the handrails of...

'You Were Young, and You Just Carried On'

He ended up a staff Sergeant, so he must've done all right, and we married in 1942, when I was working...

Doodlebug in leafy Croydon, Surrey

I answered it and it was my brother, Rex, phoning from East Croydon Station. My brother Rex took his...

Snippets of WW2: Childhood Memories in Surrey

My mum lived with her Mum,Dad, younger sister Patricia and baby brother John.She remembers always having to...

My Fourth Birthday

I remember my uncle taking me to see a German ‘plane that was shot down and crashed at the bottom of...

Wartime Childhood

He then went for officer training to Shrivenham specialising in light anti-aircraft artillery, particularly...

At School in Wartime

Anyone who had a garden dug up their flower beds and lawns in order to grow as much as possible for their...

A Story of Two Young Children

On 8 Aug 1940 at thirteen he was evacuated to Canada with his Mother and sister and brother to stay with...

A Child in Walton on the Hill

David Hall was born in 1934 and lived at Walton on the Hill. The one bomb we had a Walton on the...

U X B (unexploded bomb)

Two nights before they exploded the bomb, mum went to feed the chickens she got caught by a policeman. On...

First Major Air Raid 15 August 1940

We were to learn later that Croydon had become the target for the first major raid of the war on the London...

Growing up in Stoneleigh

Several houses around us were bombed and I can remember noticing how overgrown the gardens became... I...

war experiences

At night we made a bed behind the piano or went up to the school shelters A tramp joined us and kept...

Recollections of Colin Metcalfe, Part 3, The rest of the war : National savings weeks, hair cuts and news

There was not a lot of good war news, though I recall being at the cinema when a hand-written slide was...

A BOY'S STORY OF WW2

As our home was in Croydon, South London, my parents considered it to dangerous for me and my two elder...

Nursing During the War

St Thomas’ main base was Botley's Park, with several wards at two mental hospitals near Woking...

A Family's war-time tragedy

My family's name is Swan and my bad, Mum, sister Margaret and myself lived in Merton Park Surrey... My...

From my Bedroom Window (1941), a Raid in Tadworth, Surrey

Dad says this is the best place for us, because the larder window has no glass and the ceiling is the...

A Child's War

There were Italian POWs at Cockley Cley, who made snake rings and bracelets for the kids. We had two...