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When the VI rocket raids started we spent most nights in our Anderson Shelter, as did most of our neighbours. My parents slept in the lower bunks in the shelter and I slept in the upper one. In the ...Read more

A memory of Collier Row in 1944 by Edward Lawrence

The white-fronted terraced shop on the left was owned by my mum's parents from 1940-44, from where they ran their cafe. My bedroom was the little attic room on the front. Most of the customers were from the Canadian Army Regiments ...Read more

A memory of Caterham in 1944 by Francis Younghusband

My first memory is of sheep on the hillside leading up to my grandmother's house, and of a curtain hanging in front of the front door to protect it from the sun. As I was only about four years old at the time that is all for that ...Read more

A memory of Nant-y-moel in 1944 by Russell Evan Morgan Thomas

When I was born in 1939 we lived at 97 Shelvers Way, but my very first memory happened in 1944. It was a lovely sunny day and my mother, Doris Parker, was going to feed the chickens at the bottom of the garden. I was playing ...Read more

A memory of Tadworth in 1944 by Ann Chapple

The hotel was used by the Duke of York's Military School which had been evacuated from Dover - on the cliff tops. Wooden huts were erected along the cliff in front and alongside the hotel to be used as classrooms - each ...Read more

A memory of Saunton in 1944 by First Name Last Name

My wife was living in Northhumberland Avenue when a V1 doodlebug passed by very low, to land unexploded at the top end of the avenue. She lived at number 208. The house number it landed at was about 220 to 230. It was on a ...Read more

A memory of Welling in 1944 by Roy Ashmeade

I remember seeing the house before and after the bomb struck. The front of the house was demolished leaving just the front of the ground and first floor hanging there. At the time I lived opposite and the upper floors of our home collapsed as well.

A memory of Gravesend in 1945 by Janet Church

There was an air raid shelter under the green opposite the Three Jolly Wheelers pub. It comprised a number of concrete passageways. My mother my sister and I would use it on occasions when there was a particularly bad ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Bridge in 1945 by Colin King

I was born in Hornsey in 1940. Returning from evacuation in S.Wales in 1944, I went to Highgate Primary School for a short time, before moving to 141 Crouch Hill (now demolished) and attending Rokesley Infants School & Crouch End ...Read more

A memory of Hornsey in 1945 by Alan Carter

I was born on 8th May 1945 (the day the war ended) at 61 Trevelyan Road Tooting. My mum told me that there was a heatwave on the 8th May and whilst she was trying to get some rest there was a street party going n which she ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1945 by Victoria Mason