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This story was submitted to the People's War site by Chris Foord of the Greenwich heritage Centre on behalf of James Liddle and has been added to the site with his permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.

I lived on Majendi road during the war and my father was in charge of the fire watch rota. We all had to take our turn fire watching because in Sept 1940 they tried to set London alight with incendiary bombs. At one time they were rolling down Griffen Road, Plumstead like sticks of rock. After that we had the airraids and the shrapnel came down. AA guns used to come around the streets firing at the enemy aircraft and you could just hear the ping ping ping of the shrapnel coming down. We survived the bombing. One afternoon, my father, Kitty's father and myself were just by the airraid shelter in the garden when a German Plane crashed into the next road.
At the end of Majendi road, adjacent to Griffen Rd, they built great big
concrete pillars to stop enemy tanks in case we got invaded.

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