大象传媒

I was 7 years old when the war started I was evacuated in August 1939 to Bedford until about June 1940, things were quiet in London so my mum fetched me back to London(we lived in Mortimer Rd just off Downham Rd Shoreditch,we later moved to Bridport Place Shoreditch).
In the summer of 1940, soon after I came home the bombing started,,,,on the first day of the blitz (the same day we moved to Bridport Place) we were bombed out and lost our home,the next 6 weeks were spent in the basement of a factory in Penn st N.1 which was used as communal shelter for the local people who had lost their homes, if a bomb had hit this building nobody would have stood a chance, we were underneath tons of heavy machinery which would have come crashing down on us.The Bombing was very heavy all that time and the shelter became full. We stayed there for about 6 weeks then we were evacuated from there to Northampton, then Leighton Buzzard, then I went back to Bedford,
I was evacuated five times altogether the last time to Wales.And so I call my story The Evaccuee.
Bill Smith