Chris, That's a tragic twist of fate. Regards, Bob S. On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 2:38 AM, Chris Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
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