大象传媒

Written by Billingshurst Library on behalf of Winifred Wolfe

Married September 1939
Dark and wet October 17th 9pm 1940
Air raid warning 8.35 pm, after 10 minutes the first bomb fell in Trawlers Wood, then a huge explosion, 2nd bomb fell by the duck pond which shattered all the milk bottles in the dairy by the back door, the third bomb fell on Colonel Shelley鈥檚 croquet lawn, smashed all the French Windows and huge piles of clay soil in every room in the Colonels house (only one German plane which was dropping its bombs too empty its load before returning back home). The 4th bomb, which was 1000LBs, fell half a mile from Southwater Station on the side of the railway in Great House Farm meadows. My husband John and I sorted out the cows in the cow stalls, the cows were in a state with fright, the milk churns were turned over and many cows injured
I was eight months pregnant with Elizabeth my 1st child eventually having a family of eight children. My waters broke with the after shock and Elizabeth was born 1 month early in the Southwater Nursing home Abbottsleigh , Mrs Hart the Matron delivered Elizabeth at 5am weighing 4 .1/2LB.
The next four days railway trucks were taking the masses of clay away to clear the area, our house had to be under pinned, as there were cracks in the brickwork.

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