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Date: August 1940

Shopping in those days was done on a daily basis walking to and from the local parade of shops in Victoria Road, Ruislip Manor.

One day Mother was walking home from the shops down Dulverton Road when the air raid siren sounded. At the sound of an aircraft she looked up to see an enemy aircraft flying low straight down the street and strafing the street with machinegun fire, luckily there were piles of bricks in the road waiting for an air raid shelter to be built so she threw herself along side of the bricks and was lucky not to be hit — the horse pulling the local milk float was not so lucky it was shot and killed.

Some time later this road had a bomb dropped on it and although it was repaired to this day there is still an uneven patch where the bomb crater was.

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