Reunion for Evacuees

Reunion for Evacuees

From: James Roffey, Chief Executive, The Evacuees Reunion Association, The Mill Business Centre, Mill Hill, Gringley-on-the-Hill, Nottinghamshire DN10 4RA. On Friday 1 September 1939 thousands of children from all parts of London were evacuated due to the imminent...
Air raid shelters

Air raid shelters

From: Veronica Alden by email I remember the air raid shelters on Peckham Rye. When I was a child in the 1950s they were a great place to play. We would all go to the shelters and run up to the top and then jump off which was quite a height. They were a great place to...
Bombing and evacuation

Bombing and evacuation

From: John Smith Irby-In-The-Marsh I was born in Marsden Road in 1936 and my earliest childhood memory is of hearing bombs screaming down from the sky in 1940. I was in our Anderson air-raid shelter with my mum and sister Pauline, in the garden of our house, in Tell...
Perkins family of Peckham

Perkins family of Peckham

From: Ted Perkins Some years ago I contacted the Peckham Society while searching for WWII memorials in the Peckham area and, despite your help, nothing was found. The following account stems from that contact and may be of interest to your supporters. It highlights...