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
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Tag: WW2
Holocaust survivor visits 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
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Stretcher Railings
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
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Take a Daytrip from London – Bletchley Park
During WW2 German Enigma, then Lorenz messages were being decoded 50 miles north of London at Bletchley Park. You can visit the site to see how the Bombe machines, and the later Colossus computers cracked
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Norma’s Story
War had been declared and within months arrangements were being made for all London and Outer London children to be evacuated to the country where they would be safe from the bombing which was expected
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