Stories categorised in 'London'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
Thus this is not my story alone - but that of the 48th and the 20th Croydon Scout Troops who manned at...
Now, there are two mainline stations, and as I'd never been this way before, I picked the nearest, St....
The other nurse was a London girl and her name was Jean. Luftwaffe permitting, my mother put my sister and...
I'll never forget this, there was a bomb blast, the window come in and the statue toppled off the table...
Wartime Britain, a London suburb, and a 13-year-old lad setting off at 7am to do his paper round....
Another friend, Jackie McCall, normally came home from work at about the time the bombs dropped. On the...
Sixty years on, Jim still misses his brother, Albert, and can never forget the last time he saw him back in...
The following Saturday morning my sister and I used our pocket money to go from Overton to Basingstoke. On...
Alerted to the German invasion of France, the parents made a dash for England, leaving Mark behind in the...
Marjorie, the eldest, ended up at the famous Bletchley Park working with the code-breakers whilst Eileen,...
When the sirens came out for the all-clear the biggest recollection I had — and this is a child of...
Only the cooker survived - an old blue/grey enamel stove - although the 4 cast legs had been twisted in the...
If it had failed, the V1's, V2's, and possibly even the V3's, which were never used, might have...
My memory of D-Day by Evelyn Stewart Armstrong. At the time of the invasion of Europe, I was working at the...
I was based at the Photographic Reconnaissance Unit in Wembley, Middlesex and was one of the C shift...
The beguiling southern drawl of Sergeant Kurt Wagner Jn. would pluck endearingly at my heart strings, as...
Date -- 1945 Feb/March Impact point -- Building 416 at north end of present-day Derby Road, Greenford,...
Books, magazines and newspaper articles going back to the 1930’s conveyed his diverse preoccupations...
We had to put our hands under a ultra-violet lamp to check if they were clear of radium On one occasion I...
The postman arrives at the door,with a note to say that you have a parcel to collect from the post office....
At the outbreak of war, my wife and daughter evacuated themselves back to my wife's home in...
In the autumn of 1944, as a boy of nine, I used to go with my 12-year old sister Pat to take...
Although we didn't think about the war, the firm I worked for, Charles Letts the diary people, were...
My grandfather could not afford a new suit, so she suggested he wore his Home Army uniform and anyone with...
I suppose the very first incident of seeing a German plane was being told by my Dad to come and watch a...
My Aunt Esther was a black working-class Londoner, born before World War 1. After Joseph was killed during...
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