World War 1 and World War 2

1939 Register : St John's Wood gets ready for war
What was the Register? In December 1938 the Government had announced that if war came the UK would need to have ...
Air Raid Shelters and Air Raid Warden Posts
Communal shelters The need to provide shelter for citizens caught in the open when an air raid started was realised before ...
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 ...
Eileen Alexander 1917 - 1986 - memories of WW2 from Love in the Blitz
Eileen Alexander , the 21 year old daughter of Alec Alexander, (a Cambridge educated Cairo barrister married to Vicky Mosseri ...
Fighting tooth and nail
Dr Beryl Murray-Davies
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
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 ...
Trying to trace my mother from a wartime photo
I am trying to trace anyone who knew my mother, Sylvia Norgrove. I am her daughter and was born on ...
War artists of Second World War
The Great War and St John's Wood (10)

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Memories

33 Hamilton Terrace
Childhood in NW8 by Charlotte Halliday
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
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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