- Contributed by听
- Elizabeth Lister
- People in story:听
- Roy Julian and Derek Day
- Location of story:听
- Hounslow, Middlsex
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A4118924
- Contributed on:听
- 26 May 2005
I was born in 1935 therefore I was only four when the was started and ten when it was all over.
My most vivid memory was one June day in 1944 when I was nine years old coming home from Alexander Junior School in Hounslow with my friend Derek Day. We heard flying overhead a German V bomb and its engine stopped so we knew it would be coming down nearby. We were passing by the entrance to Lampton Park in Bulstrode Avenue and dived in to the bushes and waited. We heard a very loud bang fairly close by and ran home as quickly as we could. We found out later that day that it had come down on the football pitch of our school. That year we had our summer holiday from June to November before the school was ready for us to resume out lessons!
It was an ill wind!!
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