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- Severn Valley Railway
- People in story:Ìý
- Alan Craney
- Location of story:Ìý
- Morden, Surrey
- Background to story:Ìý
- Civilian
- Article ID:Ìý
- A5287502
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 24 August 2005
I remember my mum was at the sink, there was no air raid warning — and a low flying plane came over — so low she could see the crosses.
I could see through the window playing in the garden and I was afraid he’d fire first but he just flew away!
She thought it was a recon plane — Mallards was nearby (made valves) later damaged in a raid.
Watching ‘Hope & Glory’ brought it all back to me — When I was at school our teacher was quite a school marm, all tweeds. She tried to get us singing in the shelter ‘She’ll be coming round the mountain’ — ‘I’ll have no vulgarity here!’
‘Khaki bloomers’
Air raid siren — was based at Rose Hill by the 1930’s Deco flats
A flying bomb fell on the other side of Middleton Road to us I landed on an ARP rest shelter — 4 killed. I remember the plaster falling onto a Morrison shelter and the ARP warden called in through the window.
(This story was submitted to the People's War site by a volunteer from Wyre Forest Volunteer Bureau on behalf of Alan Craney and has been added to this site with his permission. Mr Craney fully understands the site's terms and conditions.)
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