London

The doodlebug over Kenton (Nr Wembley)

The doodlebug over Kenton. On the day that this story was contributed at Bedford Civic Theatre, one of the...

Girls in the Fire Service

I remember walking home through rubble with fireman working non stop all night and day. One fireman told me...

I Went to London

I was only a baby in arms but we went to Sundury in Middlesex to my Aunty. There we stayed until one...

The Air Raid Shelters Under the Arches of Kew Bridge

We were on the Middlesex bank, and went as a family under the arches, all of us including most people who...

Wartime on the Thames Barges

In 1936 I started working on the Thames barges that supplied fresh water to mostly merchant shipping...

I was there during the blitz: The East End of London

My Mother saying DearGod dont let it drop on us, then she would say after, some poor devil got it... There...

A near miss!

During the war I had a friend who lived in London and who was working with young children, She had a...

A Wartime Boyhood

Michael Kingham told his story to Helen Kemp at the Summerlands Nursing Home in Westgate-on-Sea, Kent. I...

The First V1 bomb

The Germans’ Second World War V1s, pilotless planes designed to explode on impact, and nicknamed...

Lost Grandma

The raid was a heavy one, and very close to their home and when the "All Clear" sounded the ladies...

Luftwaffe Blitz on London

I was a boy of 14 living in London and during the blitz by the Luffwaffe, I read a small item in...

Day Trip to London

For a treat myself and boy friend Cecil, with Margaret and Frank, went on a trip to London. The siren went,...

My Husbands DFC

I met my husband Fred in York; he was a bomber pilot. We went to Buckingham Palace to receive the medal; it...

Childhood Memories: In Hillingdon

WHEN I WAS 6YEARS OLD IN 1941, i was standing in the porch of our house no 14 glisson rd hillingdon...

Unreported Bombing Raid

I heard a loud noise near Teddington lock, and saw a spiral of smoke, a stick of bombs across the lock, and...

A Sixty-year Secret

During the war my dad worked on the railway that used to run from Hooton to West Kirby in Wirral. When my...

Escape from a Doodle Bomb in London

Everyone on board was blown to pieces and then I proceeded to my job as a messenger boy in the General...

D-Day, a Son's Remembrance of his Father's Launch by Brian Ward.

D-Day, a Son's Remembrance of his Father's Launch by Brian Ward. As with the best laid plans of men...

The Reluctant Clippie

After being evacuated for a year or more I eventually, after being called up several times, reluctantly...

The Days

My great grand mother Clara Schmit and her family moved over here from Germany at the start of ww2 because...

Irony of War

We were first bombed out from Britton St. E.C.1, we then moved to Little Sutton St, E.C.1... We carried on...

My Hair Saved My Life! by Adrienne Russell

My Hair Saved My Life! by Adrienne Russell. My mum has always told me that I should never moan about my...

My Friend Jeannie

Well, she was my friend, Jeanie Lebby, and we used to play together, running in and out of the derelict...

Knapp Road School, London - Bombed

It was not untill 1990 I found out that the school was half-filled with the dead from the London Blitz, and...

Bombing Grandma

I went to grammar school with London evacuees, and we had Liverpool people who had been bombed out staying...

The Night London Caught Fire - December 12th 1941

I remember walking to the edge of the city of London, Aldgate, and seeing the fire engines lined up,...