- Contributed by听
- Family History Day - The National Archives
- Location of story:听
- Brentford and Chiswick, London
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A3365787
- Contributed on:听
- 04 December 2004
This story was submitted to the People's War site by Jane Hearn and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.
I was born in December 1938. We were on the Middlesex bank, and went as a family under the arches, all of us including most people who lived in the road. The air raid warden, Mrs Smith, was in charge of all of us and helped people. I started at Strand on the Green School, and we used to have to go into the air raid shelter there when the siren went. The VE party was held under the arches as well, when the war ended.
Like most people we had a shelter in our garden but we didn't sleep in it, we used it during the day but went to the arches overnight.
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