The back garden showed signs of early enthusiasm: a small lawn partitioned off with trelliswork, a wire...
1 lived in what was commonly known as London's " Bomb Alley" boundaries on all sides of the...
The trees looked newly washed, the flowers in the garden seemed much brighter. the scent of honeysuckle was...
Some Episodes of a War Time Child - Betty Mallard nee Waterfield. Miss Brentnall took it into her head that...
We never had much money and mum gave me a two shilling piece and I remember standing at the side door...
Recently I read the "Churchill Bulletins, Jan - June 1935" and was very interested to read...
The night the docks and the City of London were fire bombed they went home to find their house had been...
My good trick was to tie a cord from the door handle to the other side of the bedroom and on the...
Blackout was declared which meant no more street lights. Vehicle lights were reduced to a slit and we all...
Myself with my mother and younger brother and sister were evacuated from Balham SW London to Bognor....
Sandbags started to be neatly piled around strategic buildings, such as the Town hall, which in those days...
In 1944 Father was finally transferred to West Beckham radar station, near Sheringham in Norfolk. During...
Jack's mother made farm butter with cream skimmed from the milk before it was collected by the lorry...
Mother and I stayed on the Isle of Wight for the rest of the holiday, amidst the practising of the...
Much of the City was destroyed although other parts of London were also bombed... At half-term of the...
At about the same time two bombs were dropped closer to Spooner Row by a German plane flying back from a...
Dad told me that the Blackshirt Movement had started out under the guise of a social facility for young men...
I can't remember exactly what we had but mostly it was half a pound of: Sugar fats, meat, cheese,...
Lights from the defence crew in Osterley Park darted all over the sky and the Ack Ack guns stationed in the...
It was my afternoon off, and Mum needed a few items from various shops, so I put Jill in her pram and...
Skipping ahead of my twin brother, Peter, my brown hair was curled from being rolled in rags the previous...
We had just got going nicely when the orders came that any of us who had scholarships to secondary schools...
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