Skip to content
Our Bow

Our Bow

News and events in and around Bow, London E3, in the East End of London from The Geezers.

  • News in and around Bow
  • Events near Bow, E3
  • Arts in East End
  • Roman Road
  • Campaigns
  • Health
  • Sport
  • History
  • Films
  • The Geezers
  • About Our Bow
  • Contact
  • Where’s my Boozer Gone?
Our Bow

Tag: WW2

Photo courtesy of the Imperial War Museum (© IWM H 8281). It shows Police and Army bomb disposal officers with a defused German 1000kg 'Luftmine' (parachute mine) in Glasgow, 18 March 1941.

Memories of WW2 from Dennis Banks

4th February 2024 Alan T History, News in and around Bow, The Geezers

Bow Geezer, Dennis Banks, was born in London in 1931. I recorded him talking on 22nd Jan 2024. Growing up in Loughton, Essex before WW2 Life during the London Blitz in WW2 Dennis’ father worked

Read more
Tour guide Bob Lovesey at Bletchley Park with the Geezers

Geezers visit a top secret location

20th April 2023 Alan T History, News in and around Bow, The Geezers

Last Tuesday The Geezers headed off on a daytrip to visit Bletchley Park, the home of Britian’s WWII codebreakers who played an important role in defeating Hitler. We are a group of retired people, so

Read more
Morpeth Castle Bow

Dougie Carnegie talks about being bombed out

7th August 2022 Alan T News in and around Bow, The Geezers

Dougie Carnegie (1932 – 2022) talks about being bombed out in the first recording below. After Dougie and Shirley married they lived on Cadogan Terrace at the eastern end of Victoria Park. It was a

Read more
Henry Glanz 4th from left chopping wood in Wales 1940

Holocaust survivor visits the Geezers

21st June 2022 Alan T History, News in and around Bow, The Geezers

Towards the end of May the Geezers were privileged to have 98 year old Henry Glanz visit as a speaker. Henry arrived in Britain in 1939 as part of a group of 200 Jewish children

Read more
Stretcher Railings junction Devons road and Watts Grove, London E3. They run past BIlberry House and Bramble House

Stretcher Railings

15th April 2021 Alan T History, News in and around Bow

Ken Stewart wrote in to ask: “My father who used to frequent the Moulders [Bromley High Street, E3] told me the old flats opposite going down to near the Seven Stars, their metal fencing was

Read more

Posts pagination

1 2 Next Posts»

Search

Subscribe

We’ll only use your email address to send you notifications of new posts on Our Bow.

Archives

WordPress Theme: zeeDynamic by ThemeZee.