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World War 1 and World War 2

  • Air raid shelters in your home or garden

    Air raid shelters in your home or garden

    Do you remember?
  • Bomb sites in St John's Wood

    Bomb sites in St John's Wood

    Many local residents may be surprised to learn that the Second World War left several bomb sites in this area ...
  • Does anyone know which brother is John and which is William Hanover?

    Does anyone know which brother is John and which is William Hanover?

    Gerald Hanover has sent a photograph of his  grandfather John Hanover and John’s  brother William.  Both of them feature in ...
  • Flying bomb at Wharncliffe Gardens 1944

    Flying bomb at Wharncliffe Gardens 1944

    a witness to the after effects
  • George Racine Herbert DFM 1922 - 1943

    George Racine Herbert DFM 1922 - 1943

    Second World War Hero
  • Guy Gibson V.C., D.S.O and bar, D.F.C. and bar 1918 - 1944

    Guy Gibson V.C., D.S.O and bar, D.F.C. and bar 1918 - 1944

    Second World War hero
  • Home Guard

    Home Guard

    and famous local volunteer George Orwell
  • Margaret Hubicki MBE

    Margaret Hubicki MBE

    Born in Hampstead in 1915, she was an English composer and teacher of musical harmony who invented the colour staff ...
  • One of the last flying bombs 25 November 1944

    One of the last flying bombs 25 November 1944

    Walter and Kate Leney My grandparents names were Walter William Thomas Leney (1879 – 1944)and Kate Jane Leney, nee Cowley,( 1880 ...
  • Primrose Hill

    Primrose Hill

    1940--1953
  • Primrose Hill in wartime

    Primrose Hill in wartime

      Pam Lutgen’s childhood in the war As a child I lived in the Primrose Hill area throughout World War Two.  My ...
  • Private Sidney Godley VC

    Private Sidney Godley VC

    Sidney Frank Godley (1889-1957) was educated at Henry Street (Allitsen Road) School (probably what is now Barrow Hill School) in ...
  • RAF training in 1944 in St Johns Wood

    RAF training in 1944 in St Johns Wood

    Ted Bushell volunteers for the RAF I volunteered for the RAF in April 1943, aged 17 years 3 months, and was accepted for ...
  • RAF training in St John's Wood 1939 - 45

    RAF training in St John's Wood 1939 - 45

    photos from the Imperial War Museum Collection
  • Requisitioned houses in wartime

    Requisitioned houses in wartime

    A house in Elsworthy Road, built between 1902- 1904 by William Willett is an example of what could happen to ...
  • Rose Watt

    Rose Watt

    war time years
  • Royal Air Force  in St John's Wood in World War Two

    Royal Air Force in St John's Wood in World War Two

    1941 - 1944
  • Sir Beverley Baxter (1891 - 1964)

    Sir Beverley Baxter (1891 - 1964)

    Sir Beverley Baxter  was a Canadian journalist who came to England to work for the Beaverbrook press, particularly the Daily ...
  • St John's Wood Park - the air raid in December 1940

    St John's Wood Park - the air raid in December 1940

    I lived in St John’s Wood Park from 1940 until the bombing that more or less obliterated it on the ...
  • St Mark's, Hamilton Terrace

    St Mark's, Hamilton Terrace

    Building the church  St Mark’s Hamilton Terrace was built in 1846, to the designs of Thomas Cundy (1790 – 1867), though the ...
  • War Memorial from St Stephen the Martyr Avenue Road

    War Memorial from St Stephen the Martyr Avenue Road

    now at St Mark's Church, Hamilton Terrace
  • War work in the High Street

    War work in the High Street

    Mary Scully's experiences
  • Wartime paintings by Olga Lehmann

    Wartime paintings by Olga Lehmann

    1940
  • Womens' war work in Primrose Hill 1941-45

    Womens' war work in Primrose Hill 1941-45

    As I recall, and I was only four or five years old, the ladies of the neighbourhood began war work ...
  • The Great War and St John's Wood

    The Great War and St John's Wood (11)

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Memories
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  • History of the police station in St John's Wood including David Niccol's Memories of serving there at the end of the 20th century
  • Israel and Edith Zangwill- a pro-feminist couple
  • Success to Queen Caroline 1820
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