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Life in the Big Smoke

When I turned around there was a German plane flying low and shooting its machine guns. It was so low that...

Bombs Not Sandwiches!

Bombs Not Sandwiches. Her indignant husband exclaimed, "It's bloody bombs they are dropping - not...

Air Raids and Interrupted Entertainment

I have never forgotten that during the war when I was 17 or 18 years old, living in Sydenham, London I went...

The Desert Rat and the Whale

George was a desert rat and was at Dunkirk... He was posted out to the Middle Est three months after...

More Memories of a Boys' WW2

In the later years of WW2 I recall the VI Doodlebugs flying over and waiting, in the seemingly deathly...

London Snippets

My Uncle was a van driver in London... They had a look around and found the light hanging under the van....

Growing up During the War

I believe he married Bebe and Ben Lyon's daughter Barbara and beame a B.B.C. producer. I remember the...

My Wartime Home, Kent

The houses had an 100ft long gardens where I lived in the suburbs of London... For years after the war,...

Underwater in an Air Raid Trench

The trench was between two apple trees and it was an Ace job. sometime after he came home which was at the...

August 1944 - Southend Crescent, Eltham SE9

It proceeded parallel to Eltham High Street, clipping the spire of Eltham Church and crashing on the...

Blowing a Tuba

I somehow made an appropriate sound with the Tuba and everybody cheered and started singing and dancing, a...

Early Childhood Memories

My father worked as a farm labourer a reserved occupation, there was a prisoner of war camp near the...

Memories of a wartime child

Back in London I remember playing in the bomb rubble watching the V1s falling from the sky: "It's...

A Sooty Baby

One other thing about the Anderson shelter; I remember sitting down there doing my school homework. A bomb...

Barrage Balloons over Buckingham Palace

During his stint in London he was based in Hyde Park, Kensington gardens and Ladbrook Grove. The wires on...

Youth Organisations during WW2

Everyone was supposed to join a Youth organization if not already a member, such as Scouts, Guides, Red...

We want the King!

We want the King. I was taken to the gates of Buckingham Palace on the 8th May 1945 where a crowd gathered...

Dodging Bullets

The time in the hight of the Battle for the skies over England, I was attending Lady Margaret Road junior...

London Blitz and the Sally Army

My Mum Jean was a leutenant studying to be a Captain at the Salvation Army College in London during World...

Bethnal Green Tube Disaster

My mother lived in Bethnal Green, East London, throughout the war. She must have been deeply affected by it...

Going Down to the Shelter

I went to bed in the house until the siren sounded at about 9.30, the Germans were very prompt, then in my...

Working for the Army in London

I worked on the electricity supply at the Enfield Royal Small arm factory where they made the Lee Enfield...

Encountering the Enemy

I recall one night we heared a German had parachuted down a few streets away from where we lived, we set...

Sleeping in the Courage Brewery

Pat's father Bernard worked for Courage Brewery during the war. At the height of the blitz Bernard...

Is that One of Ours?

Can anyone else remember their mother saying "sh!it that one of ours? I don't know how she could...

My Grandmother - Anne Bailey

She had an arrangement with her friend, Flo Bailey, that if either of them was killed the other one would...