On 8 December 2012 08:37, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > This is an interesting website which shows you where all the bombs landed in > London during the blitz. The link is set up with the coordinates round my > house, on Azof Street: > <http://bombsight.org/?#16/51.4890/0.0063> > > When I first moved here the site at the junction with Christchurch Way was > still derelict, 50 years after the war. It's been built on now. Some of the > older people still living on this street were here throughout the war, while > the bombs were dropping round them. From time to time while people are doing > building work an unexploded bomb still turns up. The most recent near to me > was on the riverside path about 10 years ago. > > When you zoom out of the map it's quite shocking to see how many bombs fell > in such a short time. We gave as much as we got, of course. > > B > Very interesting Bob.
A sad story: My mother's family was living in Devon and they had a little girl from the East End billeted with them as part of the evacuation of children. Her father, a docker, came to visit and she innocently told him to take his elbows off the table as it was bad manners. He said something like "I'm not having my daughter growing up with middle class airs and graces". He took the girl back home with him. After the war my mother tried to track them down and heard that the whole family had been wiped out by a direct hit on their Anderson shelter a couple of days later. Chris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
