- Contributed byÌý
- Chelmsford Library
- People in story:Ìý
- Peggy Bradley
- Location of story:Ìý
- Chelmsford and Great Baddow, Essex
- Background to story:Ìý
- Civilian
- Article ID:Ìý
- A3841355
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 29 March 2005
This story was submitted by Allen Buckroyd, who compiled ‘Great Baddow Oral History’, published in December 2003. The book contained this contribution from Peggy Bradley and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the terms and conditions.
Peggy Bradley - Bombs and a Smelly Dog
I can remember Dorset Avenue being bombed. I can remember my father at number 22 putting steel shutters up at the downstairs window, for protection. There was quite a lot of blast at times.
I can remember only one air raid shelter. A few months after we were married we shared a house on Baddow Road, opposite Chelmerton Avenue, with some friends. Then we moved to Vicarage Road in Chelmsford where we lived with an elderly lady. She had an indoor Morrison shelter and she had rather a smelly dog. We weren’t worried about raids, but as soon as she heard the siren, she would knock on the door to get us to go down in the shelter. We didn’t want to get in the shelter with her and the smelly dog. All we wanted to do was sleep.
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