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Frightening Sights - The Blitz

At the beginning of WW2, I was a drawing office apprentice in Central London and as such I went through the...

RUNNING A PUB IN LONDON

When WW2 broke out my husband and I managed the Kingsway Tavern in Parker Street, Holborn where the trains...

A WREN's experience

We survived that fortnight and off I went then to the North East of England and I was in a WRENS quarters...

The Sunderlands

My husband had been building Empire Sunderlands Flying boats and he came up to work in the drawing office....

A Shell Visits The Outside Loo

In the evenings during the '41-'42 period, as children of about 3 or 4, you would be woken up at 6...

Billeted to Eton College

I was billeted to one of the Eton college houses where the Eton college students lived. A I went back to...

At home during the War.

I ended up in Hertfordshire in a large country mansion belonging to a very imposing woman - a real dragon!!...

Nursing in London during the war

I was nursing in a London hospital during the war. Though of course we didn't have many porters, as...

Looking Back over 70 Years

During the war I was living near Belsize Park... Friends would sleep in Belsize Park tube station....

FRED'S WAR

Fred was born Frederick Arthur Parker on 9th December 1924, the youngest of five brothers and two sisters....

Joining the WAAF

One day, I accompanied him as his guest and joined him on the platform while he addressed the audience at...

Memories - Ivy Keeble

In September 1939 I was working at The Foreign Office in London and this particular day — 3rd...

The Way We Were

Every night, as a land girl, we went to the pub "Dog and Bear". I saw Peter with his beret on the...

On Duty - Nursing

It seemed that a stray German bomber after fulfilling his mission in the centre of Birmingham probably...

The Germans requisition houses in Guernsey

And naturally all the Randalls went away but this lady didn't go away, they were all deported to Laufen...

Delivering bread inn Walthamstow, 1943-1945

I left school in 1943 and started work as a van boy for Hordstick & Son Bakers and the van driver's...

An Unforgetable Journey

We travelled on the Great Western Line to Paddington but were side traked to another station, but along...

Looking back over the last 70 years.

During the war I was living near Belsize Park... Friends would sleep in Belsize Park tube station....

Dorothy Parker's V.E. Day 8th May 1945

He started: his favourite was when the Bank windows were smashed by a nearby bomb and he appointed himself...

The bombing of Devonport Barracks

Dozens of telegrams went to next of kin and eventually, later on, our Casualty Office WREN'S stood and...

My only memory of my father

There was one bedroom for my parents and a tiny one shared between my older sister and me, a small living...

THANKS TO HITLER I MET MY HUSBAND

PEOPLE IN STORY: Marjorie Jones, born in 1926 LOCATION OF STORY: Chingford and Sussex MAIN AREA OF...

A Young Person's War

The school was situated between Vicker's Armstrong at Crayfoot and gun implacements on Dartford Heath....

My Worst Experience of the War

When I had gone to try and get some basic things that the women under my command needed, this officer...

A Wedding Party in an Air Raid

After the church ceremony we made our way to my uncle Jim's house in Highbury Hill near Arsenal...

Wartime Experiences

Father a Roman Catholic, Mother a Church of England... Within a couple days of telling the Roman Catholic...