- Contributed by听
- bernleary
- People in story:听
- Bernard Leary and Margaret leary
- Location of story:听
- London
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A4360169
- Contributed on:听
- 05 July 2005
One cannot but praise the bravery of the ARP etc during the blitz but there were a few mad happenings.
My wife was a 17year old Irish probationer at the Seamans Hospital Greenwich, next to the Royal Naval College - a target. Her air raid shelter was the ballroom which was below ground. Nobody ever noticed that she used to creep upstairs and go to bed and sleep through it all.
I was in my last year at St. Olaves School, now at Orpington but then at Tower Bridge.
We were evacuated to Torquay but only during term time. We went home for the holidays so at the height of the blitz I spent Christmas 1940 in an Anderson shelter rather than the safety of Devon.
What brain thought we were only in danger in term time?
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