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We then all bolt into the Anderson shelter in the back yard, just as the first bombs start exploding. My...
The Prime Minister and the General moved towards Dad with the Premier's young daughter Mary, the unseen...
Apparently there were a number of people standing on the bridge or crossing it on foot when they saw an...
My Grandfather was Flight Lieutenant Leonard Thomas Mersh and this is just a glimpse in his life during...
Douglas Bader flew with two artificial legs, but I think I was the only servicewoman driver with one leg....
In those days you called a shoe repairer a 'snob'. A 'snob' was the name for a cobbler. The...
Mostly we were stationed at Victora and we'd serve cakes and tea for the men coming home on leave....
On arrival his mother immediately informed us there was a rumour that the Glen Miller Orchestra might be...
The Fire Station was in Lordship Lane, East Dulwich. He was stationed in Yorkshire near Ripon....
Each afternoon I would meander along the pavement studying the front page, which at that time contained...
Responding to a call from the local Civil Defence HQ, Alf's unit attended the devastation in...
Early in the 40s, Mother, myself and Ken's girlfriend Doris, all went to London to broadcast messages...
About a week before the war started the powers that be decided that the enemy would attempt to defeat the...
I volunteered for civil defence work, and was sent to Lewisham in South London to work in the centre...
My father and sister worked for the LNER in the King's Cross Station offices on Cheney Road, which have...
In the weeks before D-Day, the unit was working day and night on a top secret project in a camouflaged...
Patricia Marriott was 14 when she was evacuated with other class members from Buckingham Gate Central...
into a large subterranean air-raid shelter... Every evening at home we slept, clad in siren suits, in the...
My husband and I later had the great honour of meeting the Prime Minister Winston Churchill's wife...
As a child during the War i lived in Walthamstow, East London with my parents, George Wittamore and Marie...
My grandfather had served with the Middlesex Regiment in the First World War and was a member of the...
Ther was a park opposite where barrage balloons, a small gun and searchlights were situated. Also, every...
His account of the London Blitz, especially the bombing of Docklands and the City of London, has been...
My husband, Derek Prentice, was a news reader for the BBC World Service during the Second World War. From...
Ronnie ket trying to tell Mum he couldn't get his Wellingtons on... We rushed down the stairs, we lived...
We lived in West London, and it never seemed to be worthwhile to go to the shelter during raids, so I slept...
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