Inside a home overlooking Puget Sound above a bluff not far from West Beach Road, the lights have glowed late on recent nights.

No oil lamps were needed to be lit like the days when they were children growing up in London, England. Instead, modern conveniences were able to illuminate the home and warm up tea for long nights of storytelling.

“They’ve been staying up late at night, telling us stories,” said Judith Moses. “We’ve just been in stitches.”

For the first time in 64 years, give or take a year, depending on who’s recollecting, four siblings enjoyed a much anticipated reunion in Coupeville this week.

Three of them came from different continents, converging on the Coupeville home of their sister Lyn Moses, all together for the first time since they were teenagers in their hometown of London more than half century ago.

Jim Honan, the eldest sibling at 82, came with his wife from their home in London, Ontario.

Edward Honan flew in from Bundaberg, a city in Queensland, Australia.

Yvonne Lundon, the baby of the bunch, traveled from her home in Waterford, Ireland.

“There’s been more laughter here than I reckon in a long time,” said Edward in his Australian accent.

Jim Honan and Lundon initiated the plan to get the brothers and sisters all together again, Lyn Moses said.

They have all visited each other over the years, just not together at the same time.

“She was afraid we were getting older and wouldn’t meet again,” Lyn Moses said of her sister.

The long separation meant a lot of catching up in so little time with the visit lasting less than a week for some.

Edward Honan has recorded many conversations so the stories can be shared with later generations.

“They probably won’t be able to hear it because there’s so much giggling and laughter,” Yvonne said.

The stories are profound.

As children, they lived in bomb-riddled London during World War II and could recall the relentless sound of air raid sirens and buzz of V-1 flying bombs known as buzz bombs and doodlebugs that Germany rained down on Great Britain.

They remembered carrying gas masks everywhere, getting in lines for food rations, attending school in makeshift underground structures with water on the floor and watching people saw legs off chairs for firewood.

When they rose each day, it wasn’t a surprise to learn that a friend’s home had been reduced to rubble overnight, Lundon said.

“People don’t know how lucky they are today,” said Jim Honan, a retired police officer.

The worst part was the separation.

As bombings intensified, the Honan children joined more than 1 million British children who were evacuated out of the city to areas of lesser risk.

Lyn Moses, who was 9 at the time, remembers the unnerving feeling of boarding a train and seeing children wearing tags attached to their coats that had their names and towns they were coming from.

They arrived in Holyhead, North Wales and were taken by bus to a town hall building and told to sit on camp beds until they learned where they would be staying.

“We hung on to each other,” Moses said. “People came down like it was a cattle sale.”

Boys were picked first because they were strong and sturdy, she said, and her brothers went their separate ways while she and her sister were able to stay together in the same North Whales home.

Jim Honan worked in a fish and chips shop, while Edward toiled in a bakery.

The four rarely saw each other except when they were in school. Jim, however, didn’t attend school because of work.

“He snuck down to see us,” Yvonne said.

It would be about a year until it was safe enough for the siblings to return home to London.

“It was traumatic,” Lyn Moses said. “You can’t talk to Jimmy about it. He won’t discuss it with you.”

Understanding that sort of separation and love for each other made this week’s reunion all the more special.

Jim Honan said he believes the last time the four of them were together was at about the time he went into the British Army at age 18.

His brother soon followed and eventually they all started going their separate ways to different points across the globe.

To celebrate their reunion, the siblings held a party attended by about 30 family members and friends at the Can-Do-Inn at the Rocky Point Recreation Area in Oak Harbor Thursday.

It also served as a surprise birthday party for Yvonne.

“If I would’ve known, I would have done my hair,” Yvonne said. “They’re terrible.”

They talked about another reunion at the party. Judith Moses, Lyn’s daughter, was  already in tears thinking about the farewell with the siblings going their separate ways again Saturday, June 20.

With a 17-hour time difference between Queensland and Coupeville, Skype communications haven’t been easy on Edward.

“We’d like to get together again,” Yvonne said. “You never know.”