V2

As a boy who was evacuated and did'nt like it I spent most of the time living at home that is through the blitz and the V1 V2 period our nights were spent sleeping in our Anderson shelter good fun for us youngsters but not very good for our health so we were told,any way we was bombed out from our house in Florefield Road which was just behind Hackney Town hall and moved to Trelawney Road it was here that we used to watch the V1s that got through the defences it was fascinating at least you could see the buggers but the V2s were something else,I was sitting indoors one Sunday when there was an almighty bang our windows which were taped up with brown paper to stop blast, fell in, my mum and me went out into the street along with everybody else to see what was happening,it was'nt till later that we found out that my school Morning Lane had taken a direct hit,it was only the fact that a factory called Polikoffs stopped us from being bombed out again.Although the war seemed exciting to my mates and I it is something that I would not like anybody to have to face,looking back the biltz was terrible and there was nothing you could do about it.

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