London In The Blitz 1939 to 1944

we were 16 miles from central London but the German bombers frequently dropped their bombs close to us out in Essex
My Dad built an air-raid of railway sleepers and my Mum would not use it so during air raids we´d be making jam tarts, cookies and things. I know! rationing was on -- but She `borrowed ´ Lend-lease Canadian cow cake from the local farm and boiled out the molasses sugar and we had an enormous garden, plenty of fruit and veg... Flour was no problem either... .

I feel quite lonely in this box...

Must be something to do with age....

Was it this website you were referring to James? http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/

Seems quite old now.

Don't worry John, I'm here to keep you company!

we lived in Feltham Middlesex where there was the railway marshiling yards as well as a factory where they repared Spitfires