Fire Duty

Teenager Helping Fire Crews

This entailed riding on the engine with the crew, through the bombing to the fire and cycling back to the...

NFS North London Messengers Part 2

Mr Beck, our Fire Service ‘Father’ presented fourteen new Leading Messengers with their...

My Grandad

My Grandad...

A Civil Servant in Bath - Light Wartime Memories of a Firewatcher

On returning to my billet one morning after firewatching at the office, I found that during the previous...

Wartime Miner

I worked at Dodworth Colliery during the war; I was a fitter, keeping the machinery going. The Yanks used...

One Night With the National Fire Service

I was in the NFS stationed at Clarence Barracks, Portsmouth. As our billet was a flat facing Southsea...

London Fire Brigade

I know other towns and cities in the UK suffered with bombing raids but it was London and the London Docks...

An encounter with the enemy: In North London

On 7th September 1940 wave after wave of German bombers were attacking the docks in the east end of London....

My Memories of World War 11: Southend on Sea

Eventually it became the Fourth Arm of the Services and into uniform, so my life as a...

Close Call

My grandad worked in a factory in Loughborough during the war and was the firewarden in the factory... One...

Firewatching in Park Row

Got a job Savorys in Park Row and did volunteer firewatching for the big raid in November 1941. On a sunday...

The Firewatch that Saved Beryl Dean

They had relocated from Bishops Gate to a big house on Ringley Park Road between Redhill and Righgate....

Mildred Davidson's memories of life in East Belfast

My father was a fireman and ambulanceman in East Belfast, down near the Albertbridge Road, and, as...

Edward Fowler's Experience In The Fireservice

Later a company of Canadian Fire-fighters came to Bristol and were stationed at Stoke House in Stoke Hill...

Service in Two World Wars.

My Grandfather Charles Prince was a regular soldier in August 1914 as was his older brother Frederick......

Dance before Duty: Memories of the Auxiliary Fire Service

We lived in the small village at Headley on the top of the North Downs near Leatherhead and every Friday...

A Woman in the Fire Service

Eventually two young German airmen aged 17 or 18 years, gave themselves up at the local pub The Bricklayers...

Leamington Memories

I was living in digs on Clarendon Avenue with a friend of mine... I used to play tennis in the Jephson...

A Sad Payday in Kent

I was seventeen years old, living in Strood in Kent....

Protecting the GPO

Jean started work at the General Post Office building in George Square in Glasgow as a trainee telegraphist...

Memories of My Fireman Dad

My Dad worked as an auxiliary fireman in the city. We had an alley by the side of our house, and we...

Those that Kept the Wheels of Industry Turning

Dad and his fellow fire fighters were fire fighting crew were fighting a fire, when an air raid started....

Story from the 'NFS'

During the early period of the war, whilst attending one fire during the night he was told to bring the...

Hull Fireman’s Daughter

Although living in Sheffield now, I was born in Hull and was aged three years when the war broke out. I was...

Memories of Fire Watching

We lived in Orpington and I used to watch from Mrs Muggings’ house which was on top of a hill......

My War As A Child.

In the shelter it was noisy with babies crying, people talking, the air in the shelter was very cold to...