- Contributed by听
- Theseus
- People in story:听
- Mrs Penny Vickers
- Location of story:听
- Beckenham, Kent
- Article ID:听
- A2070370
- Contributed on:听
- 22 November 2003
As recounted by Mrs Vickers
"I was seven years old when war was declared in 1939 and as the war progressed (I can't recall the actual year) it was decided among the parents living in the road in which our house stood - Churchfields Road, in Beckenham, Kent, which incidentally was brought to the ground later in the war by an enemy missile called 'doodlebug'and rendered us homeless - that we children should all play in alternate gardens so that our respective mothers knew where we all were at any one time. On one particular morning, after the all-clear had sounded, we children emerged from the air-raid shelter when a fairly low-flying aircraft suddenly appeared in the sky. There was a lot of screaming and panic among us children when the lady living in the house next doo (a Mrs Harris) put her head over the fence saying "it's alright it's only one of ours" when one of our playmates a little boy, eager to stem the panic, echoed in a loud voice "it's alright it's only one of Mrs Harris's"."
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