We lived in London in Tufnell Park adjacent to the Kings Cross and Tufnell Park marshalling yards an ideal...
We had to go and stay in my Grandmother's flat in Clapton Common for about 18 months, during which time...
We had to find a new 'hidey hole'. I recall one memorable character at Detling, George Wooton a...
I was married in London in 1940, when the city was being bombed daily by German aircraft... One day as the...
Apparently during the previous night's raid and whilst the bombs were actually dropping, they had...
Ken worked at Bagington on Whitley Bombers... Ken was an ARP warden who worked on shifts depending on...
The men were standing against the walls, the women were holding the babies and us children sat on the...
The intention was for my Mother, Father and I to stay for a week but on the night of the wedding we...
Saturday 10th May 1941, is a date never forgotten because I was Fire Watching on the roof of the Mapping...
The devastation was captured in a photo of a bus blown onto a house by the bomb,a landmark picture on...
This, and the raid that followed is sometimes referred to as the Clydebank Blitz because the shibuilding...
Mum and Dad went back to the bomb site and told them we we safe as we had been re-united in Poulters...
When the German bombing of London started, my parents made a decision that we would not go to the public...
Then my wickedness in hoping for an Air Raid Siren revisited me.... the Doodle Bugs started and Saturday...
It smashed its way through the parlour window and landed on the bed where we would have been sleeping. All...
Something like a 'moonlight flit' took place, however, and we moved to Ipswich just before those...
I chose to stay in Ipswich, and went to live with friends... While living with my friends, a lot of time...
There was an English man who had a program on German radio giving out propaganda, his name was Lord Hawhaw...
Jewish Man stationed at Marylebone Station. So eventually they stuck me into a place in Marylebone Station...
When the bombing was bad my Dad parked a caravan on a farm, near a reservoir, and we cycled there in...
My mother, Mary, worked for the first half of the war as a bus conductress in Exeter....
Mum, my brothers and me were evacuated from Coventry to Leamington on 5 September 1939. Mum and dad used to...