World War 1 and World War 2

Air raid shelters in your home or garden
Do you remember?
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?
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
a witness to the after effects
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
Second World War hero
Home Guard
and famous local volunteer George Orwell
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
Walter and Kate Leney My grandparents names were Walter William Thomas Leney (1879 – 1944)and Kate Jane Leney, nee Cowley,( 1880 ...
Primrose Hill
1940--1953
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
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
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
photos from the Imperial War Museum Collection
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
war time years
Royal Air Force in St John's Wood in World War Two
1941 - 1944
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
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
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
now at St Mark's Church, Hamilton Terrace
War work in the High Street
Mary Scully's experiences
Wartime paintings by Olga Lehmann
1940
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 ...
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Memories

33 Hamilton Terrace
Charlotte Halliday -Childhood in NW8
Childhood in St John's Wood - extracts from "Southwards from Swiss Cottage"
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
The Story of St Johns Wood
World War 2
Blue Plaques and Plaques of Other Colours
Mansion Blocks
Personal Memories
Crime and Drama
World War 1 and World War 2

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