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Doddlebugs

I use to watch Doddlebugs come over my house when I was fourteen years old. These are flying bombs that...

Memories of Evacuation

I have vivid memories of marching to Waterloo Station from Walworth to be evacuated to Topsham near...

My Wartime Experiences

I joined the Girls training corps and I worked at Norah Wellings Toy factory in Wellington and then at Mrs...

London to Helingsburgh.

There was a land mine that fell on Tollinghdon Road, Holloway, London, just next door but one. We travelled...

A Strange Bathing: Blitz in Hillingdon

Her mum then ran back to the house to pick up her sister, Celia, and took her to the shelter - only...

Evacuee in the Country

We were sent to Fingeringhoe in Essex which, given it's proximity to the garrison town of Colchester,...

Wartime Baby

Dad was like a stranger to us all and I have to confess that given the chance to spoil me, he did!...

My Front Door was Blown off its Hinges!

My Front Door was Blown off its Hinges. Suddenly, it exploded and blew our front door right off its hinges...

School: Childhood Memories of Lewisham

Blitz on Wellington Barracks Chapel

We were having a break and a cup of tea at a Salvation Army mobile canteen when a V1 came down and...

A Magnetic Mine in Dulwich

I went to Dulwich college leaving college in 1939 when they proposed to evacuate the college to Devon, but...

The Bombing of Leytonstone

All the windows were broken and we found that my grandfather, who was ninety, was out in the garden when...

Growing Up During The War in Greenwich SE London

The “real war” began after that with the bombing of London and once again we were evacuated,...

Little Boy in Short Trousers

We all assembled at my brother's school at Kennington Oval, and travelled by tram to Clapham Junction,...

WW2 Playgrounds in Leytonstone

In my little area there were no playgrounds...this is Mayville Road in Leytonstone. The other bomb was in...

Rescue Work in the London Blitz

In a bed was a young girl, aged about 17. She ahd a part of steel girder sticking out of her chest;she...

War in London

I lived at 25 Silwood Street, Rotherhithe at the begining of the war with my parents, older brother &...

Childhood Disappointment in 1940

Inside were four cots, three of them occupied, and the place smelt of wee... A boy in one of the other cots...

Flying Bomb

My father and I left for work early on a Monday morning, we caught the 6.30am train most days,on this day...

Dining Room Suite

However he had a piece of liver which he had been saving for his dinner and he was pleased to recover it...

The Blitz

My mother and I, aged 10, had recently returned from evacuation in Shropshire, as nothing dangerous seemed...

From Kilburn to Downing Street: With the Grenadier Guards

My husband Harold Burgoyne came from Kilburn and worked for the railway at Derby, where he was a fitter....

Doodlebug

He went to the back door to look into the garden and saw a doodlebug heading straight for their house - no...

Rations

I can remember my mother queing at the butchers 3 times, only to come away with a pound of sausages. My...

VE Day Outside the Palace

My mother said that she would never forget the scenes outside the palace and all over London that day. My...

After the Raids - Dartford

After the night raids on London and the local docks my friends and I emerged from our air raid shelters to...