London

My First Cup of Tea

I tasted my first cup of tea at the age of 12 out of a cracked white and blue enamel mug passed...

My Dad and His (Lack Of!) Action in WW2

My dad worked for a shipping company in Hamburg in the Early 1930's seeing the Nazis and Communists...

My Wartime Experience in Mitcham, London

I remember the first exploding burning bombs falling in the recreation ground in northborough Road, a real...

Air Armada

I can only surmise that all the sorties that flew over France and the Lowlands that day were routed over...

Doodle Bug

My short trousers were hanging from a broken window frame and the rest of my clothes had joined the...

VE Day and VJ Day

The occupying allied forces in Europe were still at risk; the fiance of of one my seniors was killed in...

It's One Of Ours Ange!

Gran,Uncle Bill,Uncle Arthur and epileptic Aunt Nell,were all engaged in redecorating Gran's kitchen....

Lord Haw Haw Says "Sorry"

It was just after 8pm on the evening of Feb 13 1941.....the wireless was playing "I!ll Walk beside...

Hendon Bombing, 1941

In early 1941 he was an 18-year old trainee technician, still living at Elstree. On the night of 13th Feb...

Lucky Us!

After the blitz we as a family never went to the Anderson shelter in the back garden as it was very damp,...

Air Raid on South London, 1944

One month before my third birthday, in February 1944, I was at home in Lyham Road, Clapham, with my mother,...

Life in World War II

My Great Uncle Bill's first experience of the Second World War was living in London during the blitz......

Life in Islington London during War

I worked in the mica and miconite supplies factory in Caledonian Road, Islington. My sister became...

A Fireman in the City of London

My Grandad and Uncle Ted lived in Peckham and at the start of the War Ted joined the Fire Service. One...

Poplar Memories

One came through our scullery roof and as my sister threw water on it, it exploded in front of her and her...

My War -Beryl Moore

A V bomb fell on part of Bush House... I also did fire watch at Bush House and often went to Somerset...

Life in West Ham in 1940

We were all crying and scared but our Mum said, don't worry as Dad knows we are here... We had another...

Walthamstow Bombing

I was three years old when I was evacuated to Stewartby in Bedfordshire from Walthamstow during the Blitz...

Buried Alive

Henry Kenneth Webb 10 Morton House, Poplar Road, Batchley B47. He then joined the Merchant Navy and worked...

Gas Lamps Lit

It was a glorious warm sunny day, as with a group of friends and in company of thousands, we surged through...

Watching the ships come in/ war sweet-hearts

Submitted by Alex Crawford on behalf of Mrs. Giles: I was engaged to chap in the Merchant Navy but we fell...

German flag

George Rayner was a wireless operator during the war. George Rayner R.I.P....

Gas Mask Panic! London

In the words of that late comedian Rob Wilton "The Day The War Broke Out" I was playing in an...

A Londoner's War Story

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

Waiting for the End: Childhood Memories of London

The squanderbug — an evil looking cartoon insect with swastikas all over its body which tried to...

The bombing of Catford School

I was 16 at the time, the sirens used to go to let you know that an attack was imminent but it...