- Contributed by听
- Ipswich Museum
- People in story:听
- Roy Kelsey.
- Location of story:听
- London, Helingsburgh.
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A3229805
- Contributed on:听
- 05 November 2004
There was a land mine that fell on Tollinghdon Road, Holloway, London, just next door but one.
Well, my father then got work in Scotland, with the shipyards. We travelled on the train to the Clyde - to Helingsburgh, about fifteen miles from Glasgow. This was a huge centre for patrolling the Western approaches. There were aircraft stationed just by, Sunderlands and Catelines. I was very young and don't recall any air-raids.
We came back to London in 1944 - just in time for the V rockets. There were big shelters, that held twenty to forty people, just opposite our block of flats. Sometimes we wished that a bomb would hit our school!
When there were the Victory celebrations we could see, from North London, the Air fly-by.
Reproduced by Ipswich Museum with Mr Mr Kelsey's permission.
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