Wartime | Memories

Wartime childhood

• Aveley Road
• Crow Lane
• Percy Road / Linley Crescent

The Blitz

• Start of the Blitz (Summer 1940)
• Haysom's store hit (13th October 1940)

V-1 (buzz bomb, doodlebug, flying bomb)

• First sighting
• Pursued by fighter
• Pettits Lane / Parklands Avenue
• Heard from Wykeham Hall (30th June 1944)
• 5th August 1944
  • Witnessed from Gorseway
  • Witnessed from Rush Green Road

V-2 rocket

• 20th February 1945 - Fairholme Avenue
• 26th March 1945
  • Witnessed from Birch Road
  • Witnessed from Mawney Road
  • Witnessed from North Street

Miscellaneous

• Anderson shelter
• Barrage balloons
• "Digging for Victory"
• Herr Ribbentropp's car
• Parachutes for underwear
• Parachute mine (Birkbeck Road)
• Fish & chips and an incendiary bomb
• Air raids & Anderson shelters (Ayrway)

Feelings

• Living in wartime
• Looking back