- Contributed by听
- Bramley History Society
- People in story:听
- Russel Hudson
- Location of story:听
- Bramley, Surrey
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A4441790
- Contributed on:听
- 12 July 2005
The damaged train
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This story was submitted to the People鈥檚 War site by Bramley History Society and has been added to the website on behalf of Russel Hudson with his permission and he fully understands the site鈥檚 terms and conditions.
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I was just six years old; my aunt had picked me up from the infants class (Miss Smith) at the end of the school day. During the day the class had all got under the desks, after the air raid siren had sounded. Little did I realise what had happened to the train and its passengers and the lower part of Eastwood Road.
As we approached the station, and Eastwood Road, there was a lot of activity; the lower section of Eastwood Road resembled what I imagined a battlefield was like. One bomb had 鈥榖ounced鈥 through one side of number ninety three and out the other side, carrying on through the rear gardens , finally exploding on the boundary of number a hundred and nineteen and a hundred and twenty one with the railway fence. Fortunately no one was killed through this particular bomb although Mrs Clue in bungalow number a hundred and twenty one had a few cuts, and was rather shaken up. The only fatality was a goldfish. There was serious damage to the roofs and windows to numbers one hundred and nineteen and one hundred and twenty one. We moved to Shalford to my Grandfather鈥檚 house for several months whilst the war damage contractors repaired ours, and the other adjacent houses.
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