V-1s and V-2s

Woolwich in the War

One of the German planes landed in the back garden between Ann Street and Robert Street, in lower Woolwich,...

Peggy's Wartime Memoriors

One of our friends from Dumfries, Tom, was now in the RAF and stationed nearby so when my godfather's...

A collection of stories from Somerset

On May 11th 1941 a bomb landed in Mrs Gamlin's road, killing a girl and her father....

My Mother, a Nurse at Middlesex Hospital (nee Harperbury Hospital)

As the night pressed into her half-hours journey to work at Middlesex Colony, near St.Albans, she would be...

A Childhood in Gosport and Portsmouth : Part Two

Pill Boxes, Way Signs, Air Sea Rescue and Other Things With the threat of a German invasion of the United...

Wartime Brixton and Naval service

As this was the site of one of earliest V1 bombs it was visited by the Lord Mayor of London, Sir Frank...

Air Raids in London

Nothing was like the onslaught on London when they repeatedly dropped their tonnage of destruction and...

Hitler v Brighton Boy Part 3b

There was plenty of open country behind Brighton and we would hear the machine gun or cannon fire as the...

Recolections of the Second World War part 9

On one memorable Sunday morning, our group of cadets was addressed by an old boy from the school, probably...

Joan Quibell's Diary - Part Seven - 1944

When I was cowering in the hut listening to the sickening screaming of the bombs and the barking of the...

War in Kensington

My brother Paul, our friends and me used to collect shrapnel from the guns and bombs. I went with my...

Wartime Memories

Experience of Mr. Stan and John Curtis. Acknowledgements – Doodlebugs and Rockets by Bob Ogley Sept...

A Medical Student in the Blitz; Relieving Belsen Camp

Dr. Michael Coigley: In Henry VI part II, when Jack Cave the Kentish rebel gets to Smithfield in London and...

Norman's War

We spent many a long night in the shelter, as the bombers would follow the River Severn to the Midlands but...

Memories of war

The nozzle of the pump went into the bucket; you put your foot into the stirrup and pumped away, while...

My Memories of the War - For my Children and Grandchildren

My sister and I were then evacuated to a farm in Little Horksley to stay with a Mr.& Mrs.Pearce, they...

The Unloved and the Unlovely, part 2

Our main pastime was to go down the hill to Finsbury Park underground station, where for a small amount we...

Dorothy Collis's Story Part 5

Hitler's secret weapon had arrived; a flying bomb, remote controlled form over the sea. it was called a...

World War II Changed My Life ,as it did many others, in so many ways, some good, some bad

When Mrs. Ambrose decided to move to be with her daughter, Mrs. Morgan's daughter, Nellie Thomas,...

Some of My Wartime Experiences

Mum and dad took my sister and me to the departure point — a school playground — with our...

Childhood Memories of World War Two

We had two adjoining mid-terrace houses - my Mum and Dad, my sister and I in one house and my mother's...

Wendy's War

"..... I was almost three years old when the war began and although my family lived in London my Mum,...

My Wartime Childhood

I went to Cranford Park primary School in Phelps Way, which was hit by a bomb in the early months of the...

1940-1944. A Conscript's Story

The first exploded about 100 yards short of our guns, the second bomb fell right inside the next gun pit to...

Grandma's War Part 2

Like a large number of older people in our part of London, neither Aunt Lot or Uncle Bill could write a...

A Bermondsey Boy's War. Part 8 - Hitler's Secret Weapons.

Dad had got the contract to supply the local School Canteens and Londoners Meals Service Restaraunts with...