While we were on the most exposed part of the road between Keat Farm and Bishopstone Lane, a German...
I kept my mother's birth certificate and a letter from the Vienna Records Office and also a book of...
1941 was to me the year of change, for my Family and myself, and for the remainder of my life, I well...
We all got used to hearing aircraft overhead, and could readily identify if it was a "Gerry" or...
Wartime / Expanding horizons The declaration of war / Evacuation The blackout / LDV warden Hazards caused...
So assembly continued in its usual pattern, the only difference being that our Jewish girls were present -...
Aunty Milly and Grandma were incensed they both thought Mother had no right to dictate to them what they...
My orders were to pick up the platoon Officer and Sgt, with their wireless operator, and take them out,...
Like all cowards and bullies, Sister Philomena stood motionless and silent while Evelyn reprimanded her,...
Well we were all in the shelter for the night, Aunt Mag had to look after my cousin Pat, she was about...
These are some memories of my childhood in London in the 1930s and 1940s And Growing up in Post War London...
Mum gave Dad a last minute message, to get Gran and my Uncle George to leave their home in Clapham and use...
But it has to be admitted that with so many churches in Blackheath, the bombing of St German's has done...
On a clear, warm night in Sunderland at one in the morning a loan German bomber came in from the sea...
Fifty or so tanned and happy boys crowded onto the train to Waterloo Station London, many of them with tins...
Whilst we were still on board I used to tie my tins together with a long length of string and immersed them...
Usually, as children, we would get some sleep before the sirens went, the ground would shake as the guns...
Eventually my mother, my younger sister and I were taken in by a farmer and his wife to their Downham farm...
A cunning scheme worked out by our scientists was to "bend" the radio beam that the buzz bomb was...
I'd no sooner got the words out of my mouth, when Brian's mum opened her front door, she walked...
She received 1 shilling a bag, this would go on for days on end and I often did not go to bed...
However, at the Recruiting Office I was told that they did not accept 16 year olds into aircrew and...
My elder brother Frank was in the army in The Royal Signals and spent a large amount of the war with the...
Another thing that stemmed from being a scout , the older boys provided they owned a cycle , were allowed...
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