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Maps

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Memories

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Medway Drive Perivale

I was born on 24 September 1937 when my parents were living at No 54 Medway Drive, Perivale, Greenford. I thought I was born in a maternity hospital ( possibly Perivale Maternity Hospital, but no records now exist for this ...Read more

A memory of Perivale in 1940 by Alan Grose

Pig Farm

I can recall going with my father up to Barkingside after an air raid during the Second World War and seeing a farm that had been hit. There were fire hoses all over the road and pigs running up the High Street. The farm was just across ...Read more

A memory of Ilford by Brian Williams

Westhill Schoolww Ii

Miss Wade was the head mistress of the infants and the girls school. Miss Snell and Miss Jolly were the infant teachers, both out of retirement. In the boys juior school the teachers were Miss James, a new teacher she made ...Read more

A memory of Dartford in 1940 by Ramon Lane

Durinawar

My first memory was of being taken to the air raid shelter on Tower Hill from Keith Lucas Road. I was held up as a babe in arms to see the "wee aeroplanes" that were bombing the R.A.E. I saw three "Flying Pencils" [it appears there were ...Read more

A memory of Cove in 1945 by John Mc Vey

Happy Days In Latimer

It was only two years or so, from 1959-61, aged 6-8, but it still seems as if the happiest period of my childhood in Latimer was one long, endless, glorious summer. My dad was in the army, in the King's Own Scottish ...Read more

A memory of Latimer in 1959 by John Sayer

A Childhood Reminiscence

I lived in Edgware from 1941 and, although a young child, I remember the war years vividly, especially collecting shrapnel and the sounds of bombs, anti-aircraft guns and V2 rockets. In 1944 I began school at Edgware ...Read more

A memory of Edgware in 1940 by Brian Wimborne

Bombing Of Morland Avenue

Written by my mother when she was 70. She lived in Swaisland Road I think one of the things you would have noticed was the number of barrage balloons all around, high in the sky. The first sound of guns which we heard ...Read more

A memory of Dartford in 1945

The Odeon

Every Saturday morning my brother Frank and sister Lorna and I were there for the children's matinee so much fun. We were born during WWII and I remember how close our neighborhood was and the Odeon was part of it. When I got a little ...Read more

A memory of Hounslow in 1950 by Jennifer Bibb

Choir Boy

I became a choirboy at the Ascension church when I was eight. I also joined the 2nd Collier Row cubs attached to the church in 1948. The vicar was Father Reynolds and the cub leader was Olive Smith. I attended Clockhouse Lane school ...Read more

A memory of Collier Row in 1948 by Michael Fruin

Then & Now

I remember during my teens to early twenties there always seemed to be gigs on. From The Green Man (where it must be said, I really shouldn't have been, not then being 18), where it was very bluesy music, plus of course the mighty ...Read more

A memory of Kidderminster in 1973 by Dylan Mears

Captions

232 captions found. Showing results 193 to 216.

Caption For Chadderton, Library C1955

Having been bombed out of their works at Mitcham, Surrey, A C Cossor Ltd were relocated to Chadderton; they were housed in the old Wren Mill which had been converted into a government Shadow factory.

Caption For Cheam, Cheam Park House 1928

The house was severely damaged by a V1 flying bomb which fell in these well-kept grounds on 21 July 1944, leaving a crater measuring 8 x 14 feet, and the building was subsequently demolished.

Caption For Sherborne, Kings School Quadrangle 1891

It was here that four bombs fell during the Second World War.

Caption For Sturry, Street And Post Office 1899

A village situated at a crossing of the River Stour, Sturry suffered badly from bomb damage in the Second World War.

Caption For Warrington, Bridge Street 2003

For many people around the world, the name 'Warrington' is associated with a terrible atrocity when a bomb blew up causing the death of two young children and maiming many others one Saturday morning in

Caption For Ramsgate, Granville Hotel, Victoria Parade 1901

It was used as a Canadian hospital in the First World War, and during the Second World War, in November 1940, it was bombed, and has never recovered its former 'sparkle'.

Caption For Cromer, High Street C1955

It has hardly changed today, and the original buildings are still intact; they escaped bomb damage during the Second World War.

Caption For Crewe, Christ Church C1950

On seeing the ruined shell of this church today, the visitor may well get the immediate impression that it must have suffered from bombing during the war; but in fact the nave was demolished in 1977

Caption For Chalfont St Peter, Market Place C1955

Note echoes of wartime in 'The Bombed Shop'. The cottages at the far end went in slum clearance and were replaced in 1966 by an insensitive shopping precinct with flats over.

Caption For Rye, Watchbell Street 1901

The steps were never heard again after an Elizabethan house was bombed out and a workman found a string of beads.

Caption For London, St Paul's Cathedral From Fleet Street C1950

The bombed corner on the right is now occupied by an office block, with Waterstone's bookshop on the ground floor.

Caption For Manchester, The Cathedral 1897

The window that you can see to the left of the lamp-post now has modern stained glass in it, in wonderful reds and oranges, to depict the flames of the bombing; it was designed as a tribute to the Cathedral

Caption For Luton, Vauxhall Motors C1955

He remembered: 'When I started Jack Hardy was a tool setter when they bombed X block, blowing the roof off. Seven were killed in there, along with another 37 elsewhere at the plant.

Caption For Hawkhurst, St Laurence's Church 1902

The fine Perpendicular windows have exceptionally beautiful tracery and were added in about 1450, but their glass was shattered by a flying bomb which landed in the churchyard in 1944.

Caption For York, Guildhall 1885

The building was bombed by the Luftwaffe in 1941, during one of the retaliatory raids for the RAF's destruction of the ancient city of Lubeck. It was restored to its former glory in the 1960s.

Caption For Hampstead, Jack Straw's Castle C1955

The photograph shows what remained after the pub was badly damaged by Second World War bombing.

Caption For Coventry, The Cathedral C1965

When Basil Spence designed Coventry's new cathedral, he incorporated the bombed ruins of the old St Michael's into the modern building; the old church became the new cathedral's vestibule.

Caption For Hailsham, The Church 1900

This view, from the south east near Vicarage Road, shows a heavily Victorianised medieval church; it further suffered in 1943 when a bomb blast destroyed all its stained glass.

Caption For Lyme Regis, From West 1890

From Ware Cliffs we can see the medieval Cobb harbour (centre right) and the coastal skyline of Stonebarrow Hill, Golden Cap and Thorncombe Beacon.

Caption For Hawkhurst, St Laurence's Church 1902

The fine Perpendicular windows have exceptionally beautiful tracery and were added in about 1450, but their glass was shattered by a flying bomb which landed in the churchyard in 1944.

Caption For Manchester, The Assize Court 1886

The building was bombed during the Second World War and could not be saved.

Caption For Lyme Regis, The Harbour C1955

Across the inner basin from the quay (right) beside the Cobb Warehouses is the 17th-century North Wall (centre), which protects the harbour from easterly gales.

Caption For Masham, Market Place 1908

A stray German bomb fell here in 1941 after a raid on Teesside, and completely destroyed the White Bear Inn.

Caption For Great Yarmouth, The Market 1891

It was badly damaged by bombing in the Second World War.