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World War II Memories

A few months later, my sister and I went to the Alcazar Cinema one evening and I remember the film very...

Wartime Romance Memories of an ENSA Ballet Dancer

Instead one of the teachers Sheila Elliot Clarke got me an audition with Jack Hilton; in order to become a...

The Birch Family at War (Part 2) Evacuated to Devon and Dorset

I remember looking up at night and seeing the searchlights pick up a plane, it looked like a silver moth,...

Rev Richard W Stevens

The next two years we went to the new Hall belonging to the 10th Finchley Scottish Scout Group. The hall...

Teenager In War Time.

When I arrived for my first day at work in 1943 the contrast between Aston Hall and the dingy office...

Mum's Recollections of WW2 (part 1)

Dad gave Betty and I a shilling and a big grin and lots of kisses as he got on the train, we...

Living with the V-weapons

Since my job included running messages in Central London and the West End and occasionally to the South...

Saturday, 7th Sept. 1940

But I was far more worried about the film than the air-raid. By this time air-raids were old hat: a film...

Recollections

As a small boy, I tried to talk to my grandfather about what had happened to him when he was in France...

War Time Childhood: In Downham and Devon

My father, who had served in Ypres, France in the first World War refused to use it and when he was not...

A Childhood in London: Life in Potters Bar

My earliest recollection is being in Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital in war torn London at the...

Camberwell in South London to Warrington and Back

Although I remember very little about leaving London or actually arriving in Warrington I do remember that...

Leaving Home

When we eventually arrived at Harrogate station we were taken thought the town, down Pier Hill to the Crown...

Bus Stop (Chapter 5)

So Bill, remembering how happy I had been on the trams, decided to join London Transport himself and became...

Interview with an Evacuee

Interview recorded on Saturday January 11th 2002 between Jennifer Parsons and Pauline Lavinia John,...

I Was a Teenage Soldier

We were preparing for the final big push, and our objective was to destroy all German troops east of the...

A Teenager's Life in the Second World War

They lost their first home in Westminster, which was just behind the Tate Gallery when the Thames broke its banks in 1928 causing death and destruction for many miles...

My Experiences during the War

Unfortunately there were too many children for this small hamlet so we were taken on to Leigh near...

Family Experiences at War: In Stepney and the RAF

At that time my Mum and I and my younger brother were living at 73 Exmouth Street, Stepney London. We had...

Rambling Reminiscences of WW2

We lived at the time Mum, Dad my elder sister and me in 2 rooms in Packington Street. It seemed prudent at...

Life in London in the 1930s - Rose Ayriss

The dinners were cooked in the Domestic Science Centre, which was a 2 storey house built in the playground,...

Almost Too Young to Remember

WW2: SOUTH LONDON ALMOST TOO YOUNG TO REMEMBER Tony Shelton. No-one who saw action of any kind or who had...

1939-1945 Some Memories of a Teenage Schoolboy

We never had any bombs very near us although we sometimes heard them and the anti-aircraft guns firing from...

Doodlebug Incident St Johns Wood, London

My paternal Grandmother and two Aunts lived in a ground floor flat at Wharncliffe Gardens just off St Johns...

Hollins Family at War:

My father-in-law, Captain Bill Rowe, of Brockworth Lodge, was a British Army Dental Surgeon, attached to...

Home Front and Second Front: a View from Algiers

Yes, I took your advice and went to hear Sibelius' Seventh, the overture to The Magic Flute,...