The area just beside Honor Oak Pk station was occupied by Wells Fireworks,then the golf course and further up Victory gardens and at One Tree Hill,a Search Light Battery held pride of place.After the school at Hither Green was bombed the plane then flew down Lessing St. and machine-gunned my mother,myself and Maureen Tulley,(we were on our way home from school,Stillness Infants) mum grabbed us and tossed us in a doorway.I was told the RAF got him 2 wks later. We lived at 286 Devonshire Rd untill a V2 flattened the area of Boveny opposite,and were then relocated to Woolstone Rd as our roof was damaged.Sometime after VE Day we moved back.The area along the railway was one of our playgrounds and was source of Slow-worms and Grass-snakes(I gave my two to the Horniman vivarium when it opened).
















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