- Contributed by听
- Kent Libraries - Ashford District
- People in story:听
- Nell Barker
- Location of story:听
- Devon and London
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A8820362
- Contributed on:听
- 25 January 2006
The following is an excerpt from a group reminiscence session held at Ashford Library on 12/11/05. It is added to the site with the participants' permission.
We were evacuated to Devon and they wanted to split the three of us up. But my oldest sister said 鈥淣o, we will all go together or we are not going anywhere.鈥 The weather was cold and miserable and we had to wait outside after school for the woman to come home and let us in. Every day my sister used to write 鈥淧lease Daddy, come and take us home.鈥 One night he did come to take us home but when he got off the train, the people didn鈥檛 trust him 鈥 they thought he was a German spy 鈥 and they locked him up in an unused factory all night. When he found us in the morning, we all went hysterical. So we all went home, and just as we got to London the bombs started.
I lived in London, near the docks, and in the blitz they were all alight. One night over two hundred planes came over bombing and the shelter used to shake. I remember walking up the road and there were all these big holes and one end of the road was completely flattened. In September, they had a time bomb in the house next door, so we had to move out. We went to my uncles鈥 house and he didn鈥檛 have a shelter so we had to put blankets in the baby鈥檚 pram and go to the park at night. One night, a plane came low firing its machine guns, but it missed us.
Memories contributed by Nell Barker and collected by Ashford Library Local Studies Service.
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