London

GPO Telephonist

I started on the 1st floor, opposite the trunk telephonist and I was on the City and Central boards for a...

My Plymouth Blitz and Wartime Memories

As soon as I was old enough I volunteered for the WAAF — this followed some of the heaviest German...

Highlights of My War - Part 1

Dad, Henry Herring was the clerk with LNER and did ARP duty at the tunnel near Hadley Wood Station on the...

A Civilian in Oxfordshire

An incident, which I always remember is when a friend of ours, who had joined the W.R.E.N.S was stationed...

Peoples War: HELSTON BASED

Believe it or not, Helston's Flora Day legend says that St Michael fought the fiery dragon in the sky...

My War - WRNS Part 1 - HMS Marshal Soult

We slept in one of the offices - a bank - the upper storey of which was equipped with bunk beds, and,...

Memoirs of WREN Sheila Bayley, Part I: 1939-41

In fact, I remember driving down one night with the Captain of Destroyers sitting on the bonnet and the...

Fire on Chiswick Wharf

THE BIG FIRE ON CHISWICK WHARF ON TUESDAY 8th OCTOBER 1940 - from a letter to her mother from Dr Peggy...

A W.R.N.S. Life Codebreaking At Stanmore

The headquarters were at Bletchley Park and there were outstations of which Stanmore was one. We have been...

My Memoirs of the Second World War

After a few weeks of the night bombing, heavy navel guns were brought on to the railway, near Esher station...

Life at the Air Ministry - Part Two

Oh yes, that was another thing, I had no family actually so I was on my own in London, and I decided...

Doris Irene Davies (née Scourfield) - Nursing in Wales in World War II

My father, Arnold Scourfield, was Head Storekeeper at the Steel Company of Wales as well as a part-time...

WORKING FOR THE WAR EFFORT

We were really worried, though, because dad had put his pension money he got from when he retired from...

The Fireservice from Wellington, Somerset to......

8 a.m.-- report to FFC office for day's duties- these were meetings, visits to stations in and around...

Report about a heavy air raid over Hamburg,

But William did not stop there because of Fred's beige car, which overtook him at this moment....

The Peace Time Army

Celia knew London because Crawley wasn't too far away and there were other girls there who knew London...

Kathleen Peacock My War 1939 to 1946

Ron was a sheet metal worker making bomb doors, so we saw a lot of each other as each day counted... We...

Munich Crisis September 1938

Having lived at home while in the army I now had to leave home, as the Dental School had been evacuated and...

My teenage years

That was all there was room for, so Mum, Ross and I slept on the double mattress, and Dad on the single...

Continuation of My War Service

At first, there were curfews for all, bread queues in the town, sometimes rifle shots in the night and...

Lil's Memoirs

Nearly 17 years of age, I was then working in the Head Office of City and West End Laundry, in New Kent...

Continuation of My War Service

At first, there were curfews for all, bread queues in the town, sometimes rifle shots in the night and...

Bernard during WW2

The Germans developed a new weapon — this was called a V1 and was a flying bomb with a pulse jet...

My War Days

One the early shift when we started from London Bridge to Tattenham Corner station near Epsom, we had time...

My war life doc

When the bombing of London started , my parents were very friendly with the owner of the Hotel and an...

George Bailey: Sapper and Bomb Disposal - chapter 1

These chapters summarise two interviews with George Bailey, with his daughter Margaret Lole and his...