Blitz's Casualties at Balham Tube Station

Mike Harris at BBC Peopleâ??s War recalls sleeping at Balham Underground station before his evacuation from London.

When I was a young boy I remember going down the Underground at Balham station on the Northern Line during the worst of the German air raids. I well remember the sound of the first train in the morning which woke us up from the bunk beds we were sharing. I remember the stuffy atmosphere but the sense of togetherness among the people.