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Betty Fearn's Wartime

I rolled out of bed fully dressed but the room was so dark with the blackout curtains etc that I...

BOMB ON HOUSE NEXT DOOR DURING BLITZ

Interview by Henriette Wood-Grossenbacher with Mrs. Diana Shervington of Lyme Regis who spent the wartime...

STORY 1 MULBERRY SECRET WORK. STORY 2 LOVE AND THE DOODLEBUGS

and he said “Not much”, but after the D-Day landings it turned out that he had been on secret...

A child entertaining troops

I have many newspaper cuttings and the most famous people I appeared with were Jack Warner, Stepan...

"Unsung heroes" of D-Day

On the outbreak of World War Two, my Dad, John Ross Dunn, was medically examined for service in the Army,...

From Clerical to Factory Work and Noisier Nights.

It was 1942 and my 18th birthday was approaching when I received an official notification stating that the...

Reserved Occupation

In 1940 he went to work at Standard Telephones and Cables in Footscray in Kent, which produced radio valves...

My War Memories

I was working at Barratts sweet factory and was soon sewing sandbags to protect the factory from the bombs....

Bombed Out

London was then being bombed continuously, day and night... These were flying bombs, pilot less with flames...

Firewatching and Horsa Gliders - Newbury in the War

Instead I went to work for Elliots of Newbury, building aircraft....

6) Keeping coffee warm in the sterilizer

On night duty there was a senior Nurse and a Junior Nurse. 1 I suppose it was inevitable… 2 Getting...

A Policeman's Daughter

Meanwhile, mum had made enquiries about the school Ron had passed the scholarship for, but found it was in...

Memorable Train Journey by Donald Greaves

The station had been bombed and it's entire glasss roof had shattered. Firemen came with a ladder and...

New Cross Gate V2

It was Saturday and I visited the shop to deliver some models and earn some pocket money.I boarded a tram...

From Exeter to Trafalgar Square

I was called up to be in the ATS and was based in Didcot in Berkshire after training at Wrexham for 6...

From fields to doodlebugs - Somerset to Islington

My Mum was still in Somerset, so I was living with my Dad, who had been called up to be a policeman....

Ruby Aylett’s War at Home

Douglas Payne was his name, he was a Clerical Officer and I was a Clerical Officer Assistant. My daughter...

My experience as a Bevin Boy

I was a Bevin Boy during the Second World War....

Low flying V1

My headquarters at this time was Holborn Telephone Exchange in High Holborn, which housed a 10.000 line...

When Jack McGann Bought Me Lunch

There was an Irish chap called Jack McGann, who used to go around the benches on a motorised scooter...

The Bomb at Newcross Telephone Exchange

During lulls in the bombing overnight we voluntarily went back into the building to the third floor and...

Scenes from Sydenham

I was born in Sydenham, SE26 in 1936 my memories of the Blitz were Ack-Ack guns on the allotment at the top...

"THE END OF THE WAR" (Tea at the "Waldorf")

However, a mixture of lighter fuel, paraffin and a littler petrol would work. So we would go to all the...

D-Day - The Long Goodbye

My husband-to-be was in the Navy — having to endure the bombing in the Isle of Dogs, Fleet Street and...

East London War Experiences

It was Sunday after dinner that Mr Chamberlain made the announcement, I heard it on radio and immediately...

Fire Watch

Later in 1940 I won a London Junior County Scholarship for entry to a Grammar School. I then attended the...