Prior to the outbreak of World War 2 I was working as Secretary to one of the Partners of The Cornhill...
Machine Gunned in Croydon: Shortages, Sirens, Marooned Cats - and the Tale of the Ice Cream Man. In due...
With so many good fields and wild countryside in and around Chaldon it wasn't difficult to imagine that...
Our cinema now screened newsreels of the ‘V-E Day’ celebrations in London — the...
I remember digging in a bomb crater in Selsdon Wood near Ashon Vale to find pieces of shrapnel which was...
Margaret and I were the last two in the crocodile and when Mrs Read, the lady who had said she would take...
As Hitler and his Nazi party took control of Germany, the German Government complained to the League of...
As Henry looked up, the joists slipped just a little without invoking another whistle from the Warden, but...
My eldest sister, Elsie, joined the WRNS, and before she left she gave me a necklace of red glass beads to...
A small beach had formed near the railway bridge where the river came through from Ewell village......
Later on I became a sergeant and had S and T squads at Camberley with possibly twenty girls in each. At one...
Because we didn't own a car, Mum and us four children all piled into the front cab alongside the sole...
The following photographs of the Second World War and Post War years were kindly contributed by: Miss J F...
The German 'push' into Holland and Belgium after 'doing' Norway and the stepping stone...
As he now swiftly worked his way around windows, the News reader was revealing first the tale of the...
Flying mainly at 1,500 feet to beat the gunfire, many 'bugs' were directed to overfly Redhill, then...
Both Caterham and Kenley held legitimate war targets for bombers, but as always civilian property round...
I can remember as a boy of 6 learning the Canadian National Anthem at school so that we could sing it at...
I suppose that because Mitcham Junction Railway Station was less than a mile away we were in the target...
Enemy bombs fell on Ewhurst, we had an oil bomb in the school playing field, and others fell else where in...
He served on the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Formidable, and H.M.S. Wolf, I believe this ship was a...
Met at Lewes station by helpers and given my first car ride to the then Cinema-De-Luxe, School Hill, High...
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