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There we all were, those of us still at home,
huddled up together in our indoor air raid
shelter. It was about 12ft X6ft. and sometimes
there were five of us- and the dog, squashed
into it. It served very well as a table tennis
table when we were not under it. It also made a
great tap dance stage when my mother was not
expected to walk in and catch me. She thought
that my dancing on that shelter was more
dangerous than the bombs that we were listening
to, dropping around us every night.

It was the ack ack guns that I remember when
I think of those times. We lived near to Heston
where the guns were based. I believe Heston
played quite an important part in the defence
against the German bombers at this stage of the
war. (It was also the airport where Neville
Chamberlain landed and waved his "Peace In Our
Time" proclamation!)

I cannot remember the exact year, but it would
have been sometime in the forties, when the
German blitz was taking its terrible toll,and
People were facing the terrible possibility
that we might actually lose the war!.