大象传媒

This story was submitted during the Glenn Miller Festival 2004. The author agrees to it鈥檚 inclusion on the website.

I was three years old when I was evacuated to Stewartby in Bedfordshire from Walthamstow during the Blitz of 1940. We were sent back in 1941. In 1942, we were buried in the shelter after taking a direct hit from a bomb. The people living at the house at the back of us were all killed. We were dug out. Our house had no windows, no doors, no roof. We were re-housed, and then at eight years old I was evacuated to Derby.

I attended a Catholic school even though I wasn鈥檛 Catholic, as it was the only place I could get educated.

I came back in 1945. I was in school, and a V2 rocket fell at the end of the road and I was buried again in the school. It took the roof off the school. The V2 fell on a factory and everybody in the factory and the area were wiped out. Since then I have been claustrophobic because I鈥檝e been buried twice.

Often on the way to school we saw bodies being taken out from the Blitz the night before.

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