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Fire Guards

During 1943 my father's Fire Guard team were runners up in a national competition.He and his team which...

My little girl

Sally King, Sally King" the voice rang in her ears. She rushed towards the voice, bumping into lots of...

Evacuation

We were evacuated from Naples to Santa Maria A Vico which was a village near Cancello. The flats we were...

An Incident in Bethnal Green

Someone panicked and said that there had been bombing....

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An unexpected ride

Esme was an ambulance driver for the RAF on an air field. Esme was terrified because she thought the plane...

Marching office workers

Story collected at the Help the Aged coffee room in Cambridge, by Philippa Geering. I was with the search...

Doodlebug

I worked in the Royal Arsenal Woolwich... My mother's only worry seemed to be that her clean and...

Hitlers Spiders

My Mother, my youngest brother Ted, and myself were at home and Mum had decided that this time we were...

Marie's Factory Work

Marie started work aged 18 in 1942 at a munitions factory in Middlesex... In 1944 Marie moved to a factory...

War Baby Abandoned during Cary Grant Film

This was the day she was found as a baby in the Rink Cinema, Seven Sisters Road, Finsbury Park, London. A...

The Barrage Balloon

The news soon spread — there's a barrage balloon down in Carew Road. We never found out how, but...

Dog fights and Doodlebugs

Next door had an Air-raid shelter in their garden and my sister and brother and I were passed over the...

My Grandad John William Church - Fireman India Rubber Gutta Percha Company

The Picture is of my Grandad, John William Church, born 1888 - he was employed at India Rubber Gutta Percha...

A Footnote

As a footnote to my wartime stories:- I was very lucky in my service... I could go out to towns, pubs,...

D-Day

On D.Day I was stationed in Guildford, Surrey, at the Queens Regiment - the cap badge was the Lamb &...

The First Doodlebug

The next morning we learned that the dreaded doodlebug had arrived in England....

Leaving Home

My Dad was an ambulance driver and my Mum was a post lady, we lived in Peckham South London... When I...

The Fate of Dachshunds in Wartime

They all had long pedigrees and kennel names but she called the large black dog Adolf. The red bitch was...

The heat of the Crowd - V.E. Day in London

Eileen Pexton Silver Circle Reading Group Wandsworth Libraries....

"Change of Shopping Plans!"

I remember my mother being indominable about going shopping and we set off to Oxford Street - I didn't...

Window bombs

Natasha has recorded a Second World War memory on behalf of Tom and Doris Jacklin This story is located in...

Messerschmitt over West London.

In early 1945, my father, Dennis Cox, who was 14 years old at the time, witnessed a sand coloured...

thief in the camp!

The 'big brass' were about to come to search our dormitories, as food, particularly sugar, was...

King's Keys

'The Kings Keys! No-one else woud have been in the area so late and no-one could have approached except...

thief in the camp!

The 'big brass' were about to come to search our dormitories, as food, particularly sugar, was...

V2 survived

My father recounts a tale whilst he was working on a floating dock near London on the river Thames When at...

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