London

Re: Wartime Work at Broadcasting House

Usually by the time I got to Hampstead Heath station the night bombing raids had started. Hampstead Heath...

Gifts in my Garden

They used to take Con and Win to the Drummond Arms Hotel and toss them up in a blanket when it was...

The Bevin Boy from Stoke Newington

They were given the nickname ‘Bevin Boys’ after the Minister of Labour Ernest Bevin whose idea...

Doodle Bug at 14

With further difficulty I, and another lad who had come to help, got the rather large cabinet through the...

WW2 Diary of Winifred Sarah Elizabeth Middleton (part eleven)

January 1st 1942 Thursday Edwin, Auntie Nance & I up North for Bettina's wedding. The Bride, who...

Memories of evacuation from Clare 12yrs old in Sept 1939

On my 3rd move I was with a family with a son who refused to associate with us, although this time my...

Conscripted to factory work.

So it was that I was sent to Turner Newell's asbestos factory, where they made parts which were...

ww2 Evacuation frm West Norwood, St. Clouds Road, 1939

Ack ack guns from our defence boomed away, and shrapnel and spent bullets and bullet cartridges rained down...

Western Command

I had to work with stores for several weeks, then I was given my own car — a number nicknamed...

Doodle Bug on Sawmill

With further difficulty I, and another lad who had come to help, got the rather large cabinet through the...

ATS, training, work and camaraderie

I went into Telephone and Signal and was posted to 620 Battery, Heavy Artillery RACK Battery. Other places...

Memories

One night, stretchering a casualty to our ambulance, a bomb whistled down ahead of us... I remember that a...

Life in the London shelters

St Martin's-in-the-Fields, which for many years has given shelter at night to countless, now gives it...

The Miracle

It was a big adventure to me, going round the streets searching for shapnel and other bits and pieces, but...

My Mother's East Grinstead War

The Brighton to London road ran through East Grinstead, and the German bombers follwed the road, turned at...

VJ Day in London [Joyce Cooper]

Then I heard from the Foreign Office asking if I would be interested in going to Germany to be part of the...

Dance Halls and Dancing

I had hardly sat down before a waver-think 7 foot tall bearded seaman stood — no not stood — he...

WW2 Diary of Winifred Sarah Elizabeth Middleton (part six)

We spent the afternoon over in the 'Hut'. Edwin put the shelves back into position. May 11th 1941...

War and the BBC - Assault on Broadcasting House - 17th April, 1943

Probably the Intelligence Platoon with its core of senior staff were still in the canteen studying the...

A Post Office Messenger in Wartime Worthing

The teleprinter room in the Post Office was next to the messengers’ rest room and we got a lot of...

From Blitz to Bliss

Dad wasn't home, just my two brothers and me, and Mum, if she could see her way clear to joining us. We...

The 'Super Cinema' V2 - Ilford Feb 1945

Though Croydon was the worst hit borough with 141 V1's and 4 V2's, Ilford suffered the most V2 hits...

A London family bombed out in Bognor Regis.

A London family bombed out in Bognor Regis. It was summer 1943 and the nightly bombing of London and its...

Peckham in the War

I was working for a mail order company based in Surrey Docks opposite Waterloo Station. It was a daylight...

Demob And Decision

I recall a conversation with a young priest, Wilfred Browning, who was curate of Christ Church, Woburn...

Childhood

I have been asked by Mrs.Sandra Eros to submit this poem on her behalf. Addendum: My late father Lou...