Terry Fedden has shared the memories of his sister Maureen Bleaney (nee Fedden) here
Dec 022021
V.1 & V2 stories given me by relatives from Sean Murphy
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Oct 092021
Sean Murphy has shared his memories here.
V Bomb Memories – David Green
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Aug 072021
We are grateful to our latest contributor David Green. Who has shared some of his memories of the V bombs here
Flying bombs 1944
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Jul 052021
We are grateful to our latest contributor Abraham Wilson. Who has shared some of his memories from 1944 here.
John Tunstill
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Jun 292021
John Tunstill has shared some of his memories of WWII here
New Contribution
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May 252021
We are pleased to have received a new contribution from Steve Rogers containing some of his father’s memories of his near miss at Bawns factory in Blackhorse Lane, Walthamstow on 19 February 1945.
Oct 122020
You may be interested to know that a memorial plaque is to be unveiled on 5 November 2020 to commemorate the victims and injured of the first V2 rocket to explode in Islington, north London.
Due to distancing and Covid restrictions the ceremony will be online and feature film of the unveiling a few hours earlier. Places to view the unveiling and presentation can be booked at
Eventbrite (search for V2 Rocket or copy and paste link):
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/memorial-plaque-to-the-victims-of-the-v2-rocket-attack-at-archway-nov1944-tickets-124522501153?aff=erelexpmlt
An accompanying blog article \’Hitler\’s Guy Fawkes Day Surprise\’ is also available at:
https://friendsofim.com/2020/10/12/hitlers-guy-fawkes-day-surprise-the-archway-v2-rocket-attack-1944/
Many thanks and kind regards,
Mark Aston
Islington Museum
Jan 202020
We have now included a filterable list of all the recorded V2 incidents here.
You can quickly filter the list by adding either a place name or perhaps a date (format dd-mm-yyyy) to obtain a list of incidents matching your criteria.
Latest Contributions
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Jun 082019
We are pleased to point out that our “Your Stories” section has had 3 new contributions in the past week:
Visitor Contributions Added
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Jan 012019
We are happy to include a new section of articles submitted by visitors to our site. In most cases they are descriptions of individual events described by survivors and or witnesses to the actual event.
To every contributor we send our sincere thanks and eternal gratitude.