Hertfordshire

War in the Hertfordshire Countryside

Two North London schools were evacuated to Abbots Langley, and my father suggested that my mother to accept...

Our House -Smiths Forever!

My great-grandparents, Amelia, Fred and their son Maurice, my granddad, were living in East Ham, London......

War Time in the Life of a Teenager

My sister and I found office jobs but unfortunately my sister was taken ill and had to go into hospital......

Special Operations Executive in the Far East

I finished my meal and went down the passage to the storeroom where they had the coal as I had been...

A Boy's Life in W.W.2 - Evacuated

Two days after being bombed out in Gosport, the whole family were taken to a church hall in the village of...

Etnam Street Party

At Christmas we had one stocking, a nut and orange and apple. My husband's cousin came from Wales was...

Growing up in City Road, London, and Mixed Experiences of Evacuation by Shirley Nightingale

The last straw We were evacuated to Wales first, me, my older sister, my mum and my aunt. The best...

A Rare Bird: Service with the 7th Battalion Hertfordshire Home Guard

Prior to D-Day we did have to spend one night in the Town Hall and the men from the Home Guard brought...

Collision in the Skies

On 26th August 1944, two Flying Fortress Aircraft belonging to the 390th Bombardment Group of the U.S. Army...

My War (Aged 5-11)

During the worst period of air raids my mother and I slept in the Anderson shelter in the garden. To return...

My Grandma's Memories of the War

My Grandmother lived in Hitchin, in Hertfordshire during World War two. Hitchin was a small town and it...

Bomb in the Hopfield

So next afternoon on our way back from school we went to have a look and found a couple of burnt-out...

Evacuation

In September 1939, when World War Two began, I was evacuated with my sister, who was eleven, to St. Albans,...

Mosquito Collision Near St Albans: A Child's Account

Both crews perished and it was reported that one of the pilots was John de Havilland, younger son of...

RAF Electrician

In 1941 Albert joined the RAF as an electrician and was posted to the Canadian 502 Squadron based at...

Wartime schooldays

We didn't have cups, and the milk came in a ten-gallon churn - the milkman brought the churn in a...

Fairground People during the War by Pamela Heath

My Dad went to work in Enfield Lock Royal Ordinance Factory, and he took the ammunition to the docks....

An Evacuee at Eight

Unfortunately her husband was killed in North Africa at which point my mother had moved to Hull because my...

Memories of an Austrian Wife [Miss Reed]

In 1939 we moved to Edgware into a new block of houses they were just building, I was pregnant at the time,...

Narrow Escape-V1 in Bushey

In 1944 the Germans began using their terror weapons, flying bombs and rockets. Flying bombs, which the...

A Wartime Childhood.

First memories; the blitz raining on Lewisham, moving to Waltham Cross, Herts, the day before our house in...

Servicing Wellington Bombers and "B" Vehicles by Pat Bristow (nee Hordley)

Servicing Wellington Bombers and "B" Vehicles by Pat Bristow. My husband worked as a vehicle...

Evacuated to St Albans

Myself, my sister and 3 brothers were evacuated to St Albans. At St Albans we were given a carrier bag with...

Evacuee:In Hertfordshire

After some time a rather small lady arrived, she looked the children over, pointed at my brother and I and...

Glass in the Hair from a Flying Bomb

One lovely afternoon, I was standing in the front garden of the bungalow with my two children and two girl...

GAS MASKS

In the early years of the war a gas mask was an ever-present accoutrement - an unfashionable, square,...