Jan 20th 2015: Dawn of the Air Raid

[Sundae]

I seem to remember the 'rents telling you at Christmas about Dad's bedroom being bombed when he was a baby.
Obviously he wasn't in it - I'm pretty much proof that he survived - but WWII is so recent in my mind.

I had one of my Brianna moments when the new Kate Atkinson came out.
Not only that I will always want to share her books with Bri, but that this one touches so much on the London of my family - the Blitz, the bombs, the women who lived and those who didn't.

I didn't know that Yarmouth (our annual holiday destination) was hit in WWI.
Thank you.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by Sundae

I seem to remember the 'rents telling you at Christmas about Dad's bedroom being bombed when he was a baby.
Obviously he wasn't in it - I'm pretty much proof that he survived - but WWII is so recent in my mind.

I had one of my Brianna moments when the new Kate Atkinson came out.
Not only that I will always want to share her books with Bri, but that this one touches so much on the London of my family - the Blitz, the bombs, the women who lived and those who didn't.

I didn't know that Yarmouth (our annual holiday destination) was hit in WWI.
Thank you.

Or your father, at any rate.

[xoxoxoBruce]

I guess that's why the Brits were quick to organize and ship the kids out of town when WW II came along, they learned.

One bomb, which fell through the roof of a cottage, detonated in the kitchen but was grabbed by a local man and extinguished outside in a horse trough.

The device forms the centrepiece of a commemorative exhibition at the Sheringham Museum opening on 1 March.

That's not what I think of when I hear "bomb". They must explode as determined by the pictures, but it sounds like they were part incendiary device with that central core. Maybe they had more than one design, since it was a new field. First graduating bomb school class takes a class trip.