Essex

My War: When the Balloon Went Up, South West Essex Technical College

Being a nosy lad I went down to the and asked them why our balloon was not up....

Lightning never strikes twice?: Flying Bombs in Essex

One lady, called Mrs. Plumb, lived in a council house in a small development 100yds from the road which ran...

Land Army Garden: Boreham, Essex

The 4 acre garden was full of vegetables and had a fruit orchard from which, she says, the staff did not go...

Peter Dawbarn - Part 6: Combat

Dawbarn meets the Germans 'It's like riding a horse' Flippin' Heinkel 111 Good Idea, Bad...

Bombs and a Smelly Dog

Peggy Bradley - Bombs and a Smelly Dog....

'A Quiet House Close to Green Fields'

She also met some heroes of the RAF, inluding I believe Richard Hillary and Bob Stanford Tuck. My...

First Day of the Doodlebug Raids

Subsequent appearances in the same direction were fired at by the Bofors gun unit stationed four hundred...

Doodlebug in Henham

The house was around four hundred years old, my father then picked me up and a lamp and started to go down...

Evacuation: From London to Essex

I suppose my first memory of the war was when we moved to a house just around the corner, which was smaller...

My Recollections of D-Day 6th June 1944: Air Activity Over Colchester

At about 05.30hours on Tuesday 6th June the Johnson household was woken up by the noise of a siren coming...

An Eight Year Old's Memory of Being Left at Home by her Mother

So she went to work at Briggs Motor Works, where they were making the airplanes. The whole of it was...

Wartime Romance

I have fond memories of Bill, an American Airforce Military Policeman who was stationed at Gosfield...

A Railwayman's War: Part 3

The bomber landed less than a mile away, just a few feet from the Great Wakering and Shoeburyness Road. All...

Childhood Memories, Braintree

I attended Chapel Hill Primary School and here it is food that I remember most, gathering up apples to take...

An Essex Boys Experience - Education in a Shelter

In those days the teachers carried an emergency bag with stories and lessons in there, ready for when the...

Doodlebugs: Joyce Dring

We tried to live an ordinary life -style so we would go on cycle rides into the countryside around Hainault...

The day Felsted was 'Invaded'

We weren't told who was staging it, but it was all taken very seriously, with the Felsted School being...

Evacuated

Fred had to wait as people were being bombed out of their houses and being forced to live in the local...

A Different Airforce

A few weeks after D Day my Dad, serving in the R.A.F. found himself stationed in Holland and made friends...

DOODLEBUGS - Joyce Dring

Our school was sent to Aberdare in South Wales where Nina Bawden was Head Girl. This was the time of the...

A Railwayman's War: Part 2

I heard above me the droning sound of an aircraft, the droning sound belonged to a twin engined Heinkel...

Oil From The Sky

When we went into the garden droplets of oil the size of half crowns were falling out of the sky... I also...

Being in Trafalgar Square on VE Day

The bomber pilot, Douglas Badar and all of his crew, that went off in the war, left from the aerodrome just...

Food on Ration

Dried egg, there was a real knack to scrambling this Passing round a jug with milk and a fork, everyone...

Doodlebug Romance

I always enjoyed listening to Ella Fitzgerald sing, so when she was in a film in our local cinema I made a...

Real aircraft and wooden aircraft

He was stationed at RAF Hornchurch during the Battle of Britain with 222 Squadron. Of course there was much...