- Contributed by
- BECKENHAM
- People in story:
- ROGER NASH
- Location of story:
- PENGE/BECKENHAM
- Article ID:
- A2115596
- Contributed on:
- 07 December 2003
As a boy I spent the war in Penge and Beckenham
This area of South London had more Doodlebugs [V1]fall on it than any other area because it was directly south of Central London. I remember sometime in 1944 a Doodlebugs engine stopping just as my mother was bringing in some tea for my family when we were in the Anderson shelter. After a few seconds there was a very loud explosion which blew my mother and tea tray into the shelter. The explosion was about 200 yards away, narrowly missing a railway line and damaging all the houses up to our house and beyond.
The Doddlebugs carcass remained on the crash site for many years afterwards.
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