London

Turn The Lights Out!

There were incendiary devices attached to the parachute. I was in London for most of the war but it got...

My War

I really wanted to be a driver but because you did not have a choice I was given the job as an...

How I Met the Queen Mother

On the way, I had to cycle over all the window glass which had been blown out of the houses in Camden...

"Babes in the Wood''

At the beginning of the war my grandma, Margaret, worked in a biscuit factory in Neasden, called Kemps....

FIRE-WATCHING

My mother did her Fire-Watch stint, but the next day she saw the manager and told him she could no longer...

A Londoner's War story

I lived in London during the war and experienced many months of bombing every night. Bad luck followed them...

Missing Dad

My family lived by the Woolwich Arsenal which was in Woolwich, and the nearest station was the Woolwich...

Risley

I came off duty, I was working at Risley, the bus stopped outside the Anglican Cathedral, everything was on...

memories of bombing in London

I was 5 years old living in North Kensington London with my Mother, Father and two sisters and two...

The First V1 Over Rusthall

I was about fiften at the time living in 55 Ashley Park Road in Rusthall. Next morning, the headlines on...

Kathleen Keel's Wartime Memories

After war broke out she worked in munitions at Lawsons in Tunbridge Wells, then went on to Woolwich...

VE Day

I was sitting on the statue of Queen Victoria opposite Buckingham Palace with a crowd of other young...

V2

As a boy who was evacuated and did'nt like it I spent most of the time living at home that is through...

Heart broken

The eldest boy was evacuated to Wales. I was broken hearted and I couldn't think of anything else but...

Risky Ride

As a VAD Nurse in 1943 I was stationed in Hampshire at the Fleet Air Srm Station at Worthy Down. It was...

The kindness of a London Taxi Driver

We had arrived at Euston Station on our way to Waterloo and home to Ewell with a large pram and two...

My First Job

Because of lack of teaching and adult help during the war years I was given the duty of giving the younger...

Joan's Story Part3

Wartime Wedding ; Just us Girls Muckin’ About One evening we were bored stationed miles away in from...

The Butcher's lorry

Streatham Air Raid 1944

We used to go into the Morrison shelter, but that day, in 1944 my mother had a sort of premonition and told...

Strange times

During the war I worked for the London Divisional food office - a section of the Ministry of food. We felt...

Code Words

I was called up into the ATS as a teleprinter operator. I was working in London at the time It was bombed...

Air Raids on London

Her father had lost a leg in the First World War and as they were both rushing for shelter to escape the...

Disappearance of a Wimbledon street

I lived in Wimbledon, on Southpark Road with my parents Jane and Andrew Skilling and my sister Audrey, who...

One Sunday Morning in Haywards Heath

So my parents, my elder sister and I moved from Beckenham in Kent, into a small flat in Haywards Heath,...

Can-can

An officer had a little dog and I sang 'How much is that little doggy in the window' holding the...