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15 October 2014
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Generally speaking the elderly find it difficult to access the internet. However, it's exactly these people whose stories we want to read on the People's War website.

In recognition of this, 大象传媒 local radio and CSV (Community Service Volunteers) has recruited an army of volunteer 'story-gatherers' who can input stories on behalf of people who, for whatever reason, can not access the internet.

These volunteers operate in public venues called Associate Centres: public libraries, community centres etc which have banks of computers with internet access.

People with war stories to tell can go to these centres and tell their stories/memories to a volunteer who will input the story into this website there and then.
~ To find out where Associate Centres are in London call: 08000 150 950.

Stories contributed by 大象传媒 LONDON CSV ACTION DESK

Not once but twice
My Uncles' Graves
The Horrors of Evacuation
Animal's Galore - An Evacuees Story
The Blitz
A Shy Evacueeicon for Story with photo
Sore Backs and Air-Raid Shelters
Taiwanese Resistance Against the Japanese
My Experiences of the War - An Evacuees Story
Life in a Air-Raid Shelter
Alien in the ATS Woman's Army
German POW Staying within British Household
Bomber Command Heartbreak
The Brother of the Heroicon for Recommended story
The Case Of The Disappearing Oven
The Case Of The Disappearing Pub
Deaf Parents in the Blitzicon for Recommended story
Tricycle
US Entry in the war - grey suits
Education and the Underground
Sore throats and evacuation
Wartime food
Working at the Grocers
Celebrating My 21st - on VE Day!
Daylight bombing raid
The Gravestone in Mum's Bed!
Farewell at Tidal Basin Tavern
Bunking school in the bunker
Mother's View of War
CSV
Memories of V.E. Day
Bombs Falling in Dockland - Wapping,Surrey Docks
True Love on VE Day
In Care we Trust
Lionel Avey's memory of a Blitz bombing
One Man's War
Patricia Connop's memories of VE Day
63 Years of Glory
Jean Dawson's Memory of Declaration of War in 1939
Air Raid Memories
Evacuated from East Sussex to Bedford
Russell Dicks memories of VE Day
My Friend Jeannie
A Wartime Coincidence
Based in Egypt During the War
General Life in Manchester
Listening out for the bombers return
Edmonton Gets Bombed
Gas Masks and Souvenirs
Life in Burnhurst During Wartime
Wartime in Bromley
Celebrations 'VE Day' style
The First Man in the country to be natrualised
Terracotta pot mistaken for bomb
As I Remember It!
Memories of the Services during the War
The Night Our House Fell on Top of Us
Nurse Mary
Memories
When the Local Market was Bombed
Dancing Doreen
When Will It End...
Hitler didn't stop My Wedding
Under the Indian Sunicon for Story with photo
My American Friend
Watching the Dogfights over Exeter Station
The Blitz on Swansea Docks
Flashy American Ties
Long John Silver
U X B (unexploded bomb)
HMS Formidable
HOME SWEET HOME
Whatever will be will beicon for Story with photo
A frightening experience but it was a sight I won't forget
Stories of my father
Not Without America
Fetching the baby's milk
Memories from my youth
My view of the war
Leaving Gibraltar
Blackouts in Finsbury Park/ ARP Wardens
Balloons in Derby
Boarding School for Disabled Children
Boarding School for Disabled Children
Bombs Accross New Malden
children in the war
Bombs, bombs and more bombs
Air raid Precaution Warden and Rationing
General memories amongst one family
Evacuation to Cornwall
Living in WWII as I remember it
My Coldest Winter: Dec 1944-Jan 1945
The excitment of VE day
A mixture of emotions
The sound of war
VE Day-Electric
Up on the roof
Homes were bombed
Last ones chosen
I found love at war
Daily Life Under the Raids
The Sweetshop in the Blitz
Milk a Plenty
Born on VE Day
A better view of the Queen
Evacuation back into London during the Blitz
Stuck Under the Bed
Banking during the London Blitz
Trinidad's Waricon for Recommended story
I'm a Survivor!icon for Recommended story
Chilren - No Worries
Auntie's Little Surprise
Missing Dad
Rescue from a Coal Hole
A Party and an Evactuation
How to Prevent Chicken Courtship
Looking back over the last 70 years.
Looking Back over 70 Years
BITTER WAR
Evacuation to Wales and a disguised plane factory
Constance and Frank Vinzill - memories of Waterloo
Millbank to Yorkshire
In fountains at Trafalgar Square/In cellars in France
Memories of the start and end of the war
El Alamein to Montecassino
Incendiaries of Fire
Black Saturday
Young Firemen
Under the Flight Parth to Berlin
We Kept Smiling
My East End Childhood
Barrage Baloon Tragedy
Bombs in the park
Sheep Strike
Johns WW2
All for a cuppa
A Boy from Romford
Light House Spy
Seven Years of War - Part 1
Seven Years of War - Part 2 - Basic Training Completed
Seven Years of War: Basic Training Completed
Escape from Paris to Philadelphia
Escape from Paris to Philadelphia
Bomb Attempt on Manchester
Seven Years of War: Part 3, a continuation of story A4220678: Arrival in France
Test story please ignore
volunteer day
practiceicon for Story with photo
Practise Story
the flight from Koenigsbergicon for Story with photo
prisoner of war
a tale of lonliness
test run
Joining up
Evacuation to Wales
london evacuees come to chichester
john's story
No-one wanted Kitty
Prisoner of War Story
pamela's story
sharing susans story
Seven Years of War - Part 4, a continuation of story no. A4223431: Leaving France.
An Early End to a Summer Holiday
Evacuation to Eastbourne
My Air Raid Shelter Memories
"The Way Ahead"
A Parachute and an Unexpected Surprise!
A Late Night Telephone Call
Celebrations Tinged with Sadness
An Evacuee's Tale
Bomb Threats and Rabbit Stew
Royal Engineers Training Instructor
D-Day: First Day Ashore
Victor in POW camp, Sumatra
flying trees
Seven Years of War - Part 5, a continuation of story no. A4235672: Back in Bournemouth and in Dover.
flying tree
Bombed Out in Clapham Common
Born to the sound of sirens
The King of the Water Pipes
If that's what war is - it's very boring
Where on earth are they going?
At war with milk
My fathers storyicon for Story with photo
My War
Stripping down the 25 pounders
Experiences in the Merchant Navy
Overseas draft
Seven Years of War - Part 6, a continuation of story A4278260: After Dover; Honiton, Redcar, and South Africa.
Seven Years of War - Part 7, a continuation of story no. A4292462: India - Deolali, Gaya, Dimapur, Kohima, the mountains.
Father's Words
Many Memories, Eight of us in a Shelter
Stuck in the Barracks for VE Day!
You can walk to Normandy on the boats!
Near Misses
House Blown to Bits
Nearly hit three times, but still lucky
Sleeping in the Garden
dinnertimeicon for Story with photo
the preview testicon for Story with photo
Testingicon for Story with photo
Testing
Sis's Story
Testingicon for Story with photo
popolk
Botchupicon for Story with photo
Wartime strawberriesicon for Story with photo
a short story
Life
test
Air force adventures
test
training
Getting the Itch
A Collection of Memories
Scrambling to Save the Eggs
Bombs in Bombay
Spam Fritters Saved My Life
If the Job Fits...
A tough life as an evacuee
Evacuee: Belated Bath Time
TESTING
Civil Defence in Nottingham
Hello Again Joe
Blitz wedding
London Memories
Brazilian War
Evacuated Down Under
A Bromley girl in Dorset
Creative Cooking and Silk Stockings
Beatrice's Evacuation
Jim's war
I was a WW2 baby
Jim's war story number 2
My father's war as a diplomat and mine as an evacuee
The Longest conga in historyicon for Story with photo
The Longest conga in historyicon for Story with photo
Ubendum Wemendumicon for Story with photo
Buzz Bomb Baby
A suitng cloth crater
The library at Dalstonicon for Story with photo
When Jackson and Joseph's was hit by a Doodlebug
Too late to be sent home
TESTING: MR SILLY IN NONSENSELAND
The Bad and the Good of WW2
Diana Bolton's Evacuation from Poplar to Norfolk
GEORGE LEFTWICH'S TELEGRAPH STORY DURING THE COLD WAR
Esprit de corps
No bananas in Chesham
A Personal War Story by William and Betty
PAT BULLOCK'S CHILDHOOD MEMORIES OF THE LOSS OF THE FIREFIGHTERS AT THE OBELISK
Memories of the Wolrd War II
A child's memory of a near miss
Vera Downton's Evacuation to Worksop, Nottingham
What Leonard Tancer did in the war
Memories from My Village, Denton. Northamptonshire
The Adventures of a wartime bride
St John Amublance after the War
D-Day
How Enemies Became Friends
8th Btn Parachute Regiment in the Ardennesicon for Recommended story
Childhood During the War in Switzwerlandicon for Recommended story
The first day of the Blitz from an Arsenal supporter
Operation Varsity Pilgrimmage
Briefs encounter
Dead Dog
A Fly on the Ceiling
My mother's recollections
How I came to join the fire service
Mary in Thessalonikiicon for Recommended story
Woolwich Arsenal
I Lit Up the Skies
Last Days of the War
Evacuation to Suffolk and Midsomer Norton, Somerset
Life on a Gunfield
When Chamberlain Came to Heston
Somewhere to Sleep
My Experiences!
Wireless Accumulators and other memories
Evacuee memories of Dorset
Too Close for Comforticon for Recommended storyicon for Story with photo
Still Lifting a Pint
Sissy's Story
The Jam Packers
Landmines in Hollandicon for Recommended story
Coalmining for the Japaneseicon for Recommended story
An 鈥渆xtra-ordinary鈥 soldier - WWII Memoirs from Dunkirk to Stalag XVIII C 鈥 Part 8
An 鈥渆xtra-ordinary鈥 soldier - WWII Memoirs from Dunkirk to Stalag XVIII C 鈥 Part 7
An 鈥渆xtra-ordinary鈥 soldier - WWII Memoirs from Dunkirk to Stalag XVIII C 鈥 Part 6
VE Celebrations: from Lasham to Buckingham Palace
An 鈥渆xtra-ordinary鈥 soldier - WWII Memoirs from Dunkirk to Stalag XVIII C 鈥 Part 5
An 鈥渆xtra-ordinary鈥 soldier - WWII Memoirs from Dunkirk to Stalag XVIII C 鈥 Part 4
An 鈥渆xtra-ordinary鈥 soldier - WWII Memoirs from Dunkirk to Stalag XVIII C 鈥 Part 3
An 鈥渆xtra-ordinary鈥 soldier - WWII Memoirs from Dunkirk to Stalag XVIII C 鈥 Part 2
An 鈥渆xtra-ordinary鈥 soldier - WWII Memoirs from Dunkirk to Stalag XVIII C 鈥 Part 1
A Hampstead ARP Warden's Experiences
After Crete Fell
Digging up the past
The Dachshund and the Chocolate
A Cockney in the Blitzicon for Recommended story
The Bevin Boy from Stoke Newington
Being an Evacuee
The Ginger Cat in the Anderson Shelter
My Wedding in the Bombed Out Church
The Evacuee picks wild strawberries
Can you define the taste?
Romance on Victoria Station
A surprising turn of events on the last day of school...
Childhood memories of moving around during the war
Seeing the World and Finding God
V2 bombing of Woolworths, New Cross, London
Evacuated to a stately home
An Electrician in the RAF
Putting on a good show in Lewisham
Catford School Bomb Survivor
Enduring in South East London
Bombing along the Thames
A WAAF in Bournemouth
Rescued by his brother-in-law in Burma
The first German plane shot down in England?
鈥楥heerful acceptance of danger鈥: pranks in the mess room between bombing missions
Girl Guide and papergirl in Scunthorpe
A Swift Promotion
Confined to Barracks
Three Doodlebugs
Flying Bombs
Serving on Aircraft Carriers
Memories of a War Child
D Day Landing Anniversary
Landing Commandos on D Day
Caring for the Family
Dornier 17 over Hobelton
The Great Fire of Oxford Street
A War Time Evacuee
Hospital Evacuee as a Child and Sharing the Hospital with German Prisoners of War.
Teenagers in Lagos.
My Incendiary Bomb: my pet under the bed!
Childhood Memories in Central London
Childhood on the Run
Wartime Love Story: Poland meets England.
Jim Bossley's Posting to MAEE
The Air War from Algiers
On Strike in India
Commuting in Lorries
Life as an Officers' Steward in the WRNS
Yugoslav Diplomacy
A Corner of Italy that is forever England
From Swimwear Model to WVS Volunteer
Life as a young, married woman in War-torn Burma and in India.
Under the Earth Instead of Far Above It: My Underground War as a Reluctant Bevin Boy.
On Factory Fire-duty, Improvisation,Collecting Incendiary Bombs.
A rendez-vous on the rock
Delivering bread inn Walthamstow, 1943-1945
Delivering bread in Walthamstow, 1943-1945
The Buccaneers/London Navy
**The 5.30 Train to Romance**
V2 Rocket
What's Inside An Incendiary Bomb? This Time Curiosity Did Not Kill the Cats!
Precision Engineering Apprenticeship, Introduction to the Horrific and Bloody Results of Bombs,and the Intricacies of Transporting Earth-moving Machines by Aircraft.
From Clereical to Factory Work and Very Noisy Nights.
My memories of the lost years: 1939-1945. Chapter 1
My memories of the lost years: 1939-1945. Chapter 2
My memories of the lost years: 1939-1945. Chapter 3
My memories of the lost years: 1939-1945. Chapter 4
My memories of the lost years: 1939-1945. Chapter 5
My memories of the lost years: 1939-1945. Chapter 6
My memories of the lost years: 1939-1945. Chapter 7
So many memories
Childhood memories in London and as an evacuee in Eastbourne
My Wartime Experience in the Professional Theatre
The Near Miss
The bombing of Calcutta by the Japaneseicon for Recommended story
Tin Can Alley
Boy Scouts and Beyond
Where we met
The Gipsy Moth crashed into the hanger
When the King took their medals back
Stolen sausages
My Dad's story
The bravery of my brothers in the Polish resistance - Chapter one.icon for Recommended story
The bravery of my brothers in the Polish resistance - Chapter two.icon for Recommended story
The bravery of my brothers in the Polish resistance - Chapter three.
The bravery of my brothers in the Polish resistance - Chapter four.icon for Recommended story
The bravery of my brothers in the Polish resistance - Chapter four.icon for Recommended story
The bravery of my brothers in the Polish resistance - Chapter five.
Why we cheered the bombing of London
Blitz
The Awakening
Miracle at Charing Cross - chapter one
Miracle at Charing Cross - chapter two
From Clerical to Factory Work and Noisier Nights.
War-time Childhood Memories in Walworth, South-East London
Peritonitis when an Evacuee from West Wickham in Yorkshire
Listening to the Enemy Radio
Scenes from Sydenham
Risky Ride
Annie O'Connor's War Years.
Henry Cummings' Coded Messages in Music.
LUCKFLY THE MOAT WAS DRY
LUCKFLY THE MOAT WAS DRY
LUCKILY THE MOAT WAS DRY
Daphne Martin - A New Malden's Schoolgirl's Memories.
Crime Does Pay
Life
I Made the Most of War Opportunities
Destination- Secret
Surviving in Occupied France
MIS-ADVENTURE
THE LAST SEA SWIM
The Typing Pool
A very Busy Week
THREE LIVES IN TRANSIT
At the Start of the Blitz
A little girl from London evacuated to the country
Growing up in the war
THE DAY THE BARRAGE BALLOONS STAYED DOWN AND THE SIRENS REMAINED SILENT
A shape of Things to Come
Searching For Identities of War Casualties
Recollections of war as a young child
Parliament Hill School: Teaching in London During the War.
FIRST OF THE FEW
my memories of dalston at home and school etc
Aspiring Journalist Alan Haylock's experience of the June 1944 Aldwych Bombing.
Alerts Have Sounded: an excerpt from my autobiography
My War Memoirs
A Child's Eye View in London and South Wales
An Unheroic War
War is Personal
Flying Fortresses are Wonderful Planes but Make Poor Boats and 3 Other Stories.
Some Early Recollections of my Refugee Family.
World War II Childhood - part 2
A World War II Childhood
War time Stories from WW2icon for Story with photo
A NIGHT OF TERROR!
A NIGHT OF TERROR!
Lucky Escape
Happy Birthday - VE Day
SUMMER - 1940 WOLDINGHAM - SURREY
VE DAY BIRTHDAY - No. 2
My War As a Child
My War As a Child. PART 2 of 3.
My War As A Child - Part 3 of 3
From Chodel in Poland to Monte Cassino. PART 1
From Chodel in Poland to Monte Cassino PART 2
Olive Mary Moir's Evacuee Days, 1939 to 1943.
Pamela Matthews' Memories of a Schoolgirl.
From Wimbledon to Westmoreland
Life with the Lyons
Seven Years of War: Malaya; Voyage to Java on the Loch Katrine; Batavia: part 16
Seven Years of War: Bombay; Brigadier King and Foxholes - Part 15
Seven Years of War:Action with Brigadier King: Part 14
Seven Years of War: Lucknow and Malaria; Jhansi: Part 13
Seven Years of War:Shillong: Part 12.
Seven Years of War: The Next Objective: Part 11
Seven Years of War: Part 10
Seven Years of War: Action and a Jungle Journey with a Badly Wounded Officer: Part 9
Seven Years of War: First Reconnaisance Mission: Part 8
How to Earn a Sixpence
A Daughter of the (Mini) Raj - part 1.
A Daughter of The (Mini) Raj - part 2.
An Evacuee鈥檚 Tale
Destination Unknown
My War, 1939 - 45
大象传媒 Recording - RAF Over Essen: 3rd April 1943icon for Story with photo
Lucky to Have Survived: Henry James Scoates' Lucky Shoreleave Pass.
Saved By the Seat of His Pants!
Srgt John Alan Chapman's Stories
SEVEN YEARS OF WAR 17
My family experiences
Little Sister - My Mother's Narrow Escape.
Connie Evans' Jitterbugging Quickstep.
It All Started With Chamberlain.
Mo Paulley's Land-girl's Memories of Cow Kicks, Milk and Dung.
THE DAY THE WAR ENDED
Olive Want's A Silver Sixpence and Other Memories
Margaret Warner's Sadness Of War
Gulliver's Travels In An Anderson Shelter
My First Primrose and Snowdrop-Childhood Memories
Malvern Girls' College
A Mad Rush to Luton With The Laundry Basket on The Day War Broke Out
Finding the Kidneys and Welcome Home,Daddy!
Eclectic Wartime Memories
Barrage Balloon Noise and Garden Delights
George's V E Day Coincidence
Malcolm Tadd's Brighton Childhood Memories
Brian Want's Southend Childhood War Memories
Stan Kendrick's Adventures Of A Dispatch Rider
The Day War Started, September 1939
Our War at Home
Bombed Out
Life in the Women鈥檚 Timber Corps
The Women鈥檚 Land Army 1943-48
A Texan VE Day
Eileen Wells' (nee Edwards) War-time Schooling
Ian Simons' War Memories
Pearl Pearce's Childhood Memories of Shelters and VE Day
Gwendoline Fullick's (nee Pressland) Wartime Grocery Experiences.
Me and My Parrot Polly
A Shell Visits The Outside Loo
Deaf Parents in the Blitz and Pyjamas in the Street
My Shiny New Tricycle.
America's Entry in the War and Grey Suits
Gwen Gibbs' (nee Sidwell) Secret Wireless Work.
Amy Johnson's Landing at Croydon Airport
Nursing in Suez in Egypt during the War
What I Did During The War
Helping Marguerite Patten and Entertaining the Troops
My Three Evacuations
My Worst Experience of the War
A Teenager in 1939
Driving and Entertaining and Milking
Munitions and Engineering
Life on a Heavy Ack Ack Gunsite
VE Day
Being in the Right/Wrong Country at the Wrong Time
Grave-stone Bed
A Boy at War - Part 1: Declaration of War
A Boy at War - Part 2: Friends, Enemies and Family
V2s, Brussels Sprouts, and a Bicycle Wheell (Accompanies story A7792996)
From Electrician to Radio Operator in the Royal Signals. (Accompanies story A7791500)
A child's understanding of barrage balloons
War-time Romance on the Toss of a Coin.
Winning Races and Psychological Testing in the WAAF
Friend killed alongside me by enemy fire
A Boy at War - Part 3: Puts the Tin Hat On It
A Boy at War - Part 4: Puts The Tin Hat On It (continued)
A Gordon Highlander at War - Part 1: 1938 to Dunkirk
A Gordon Highlander at War - Part 2: North Africa and Sicily
A Gordon Highlander at War - Part 3: The Invasion
A Gordon Highlander at War - Part 4: Over the Rhine
Childhood memories from Bristol
MY LIFE IN FRANCE, 1939 鈥 1945 (Chapter 5: 1943)
Memories from Being a Prisoner of War in Japanese POW Camps
Memories of Japanese POWs
A Teenage Girl's War
David Wooderson's War - Part 1: Early Days
David Wooderson's War - Part 2:From Phoney War to Real Action
David Wooderson's War - Part 3: Evacuation to Wales (1)
David Wooderson's War - Part 4: Evacuation to Wales (2)
David Wooderson's War - Part 5: Back in Bexleyheath
David Wooderson's War - Part 6: D-Day and after
David Wooderson's War - Part 7: Final Days
A FAMILY STORY OF LIFE OR DEATH IN HITLERS GERMANY 鈥 A TRUE STORY
HOMEWARD BOUND SOME WHEN 鈥 DEC 1945
Chapter 24
John Mills: Chapter 23
John Mills: Chapter 22
John Mills: Chapter 21
John Mills: Chapter 20
John Mills: Chapter 19
John Mills: Chapter 18
John Mills: Chapter 18
John Mills: Chapter 17
John Mills: Chapter 17
John Mills: Chapter 16
John Mills: Chapter 15
John Mills: Chapter 14
John Mills: Chapter 13
John Mills: chapter 12b
John Mills:Chapter 12a
John Mills: Chapter 11
John Mills: Chapter 11
John Mills: Chapter 10
John Mills: chapter 9
John Mills: Chapter 8
John Mills: Chapter 7
John Mills: Chapter 6
John Mills: Chapter 5
John Mills: Chapter 4
John Mills: Chapter 3
John Mills: Chapter 2
John Mills: Chapter 1
John Mills: Introduction 1 of 27 chapters
My war
Recollections 1939 - 1945(6)icon for Recommended story
Childhood Memories in Stanmoreicon for Recommended story
Recollections 1939 - 1945(6)
A Scottish Child's View of WW2icon for Recommended story
'Kids at War' - A Short Story by an Evacuee
John Goes to Jordan's
A Boy's View of 1939 - 45
A Teenage Boy's memories
A Teenage Boy's memories
A.T.S postings
A Teenager's Life in the Second World War
My vivid memories of London in the war
my Life in France, 1939 - 1945icon for Recommended story

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