About the contributor

Of course it spread over a somewhat greater area than that, but that was the part of London of my childhood. Mother and father, Florence Elizabeth and Wallace Stanley Foote, and self moved from Dagenham/Ilford to Iverson Road, Kilburn early in the war. Father worked for the London and North Eastern Railway at Marylebone, and was in the Home Guard attached to an AA site at Dollis Hill.
There was a street shelter a short distance from the house. I recall stuffy, smelly darkness, the glow of cigarettes, and at the sound of aircraft, adults making comments like, "It's one of ours". "Nah, it's one of theirs!"
I attended the Primary and Junior schools at Kingsgate Road/Messina Avenue.
We were bombed out during 1944, by a V2, I believe. There is now a playground on the site.

I am a keen student of WW2.