- Contributed by听
- Essex Action Desk
- People in story:听
- Marian Roe
- Location of story:听
- Grweat Baddow, Essex and Witton, Middlesex
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A4002779
- Contributed on:听
- 04 May 2005
In 1939 I lived in Great Baddow, during one bombing raid my neighbour and I with our children were in the shelter but her husband, Bert was on his way. When he arrived he looked very shocked and told us that he had been nearly hit by the remains of a Molotov Cocktail.
In 1940, I moved to with my children to Witton in Middlesex to stay with my sister as my husband was away in the Royal Marines. She had this Morrison shelter inside the dining room. My husband came home on leave to find us under the shelter but said he wasn't going to sleep under the shelter. Then a Doodlebug came over and he soon came under with us.
Another occasion, we were under the shelter and came out when it ended. My sister went around her house looking for damage and found all of her curtain rods had jumped off their hooks and were laying on the floor.
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