Ping!
Don’t see many burkas amongst the crowd.
Good post! Thanks.
I can’t remember the exact details, and don’t have time to start Googling..but during the Blitz, there was one very tragic incident. A V-1 hit a school, and 20 or so very young kids and several teachers, were killed. There’s a very famous picture of all the victims..a class pic taken a few weeks before the event..
Thanks for posting this. It’s fascinating.
No cell phone. Internet access. No facebook...
Probably be masses of sobbing wet noodles in fetal positions...
I met the late Terry Walsh, Dr Who stunt coordinator back in the classic Dr Who days. He was always happy and smiling — but one time he remembered walking on the sidewalk in his bomb-hit London neighborhood. The childhood memory of a trail of blood running down the walkway of one ruined house turned him somber in an instant, like it had just happened.
Bflr
Reminds me of the “Narnia” series.
Now, such kids spend their time vandalizing bus stops and assaulting pensioners.
Imagine setting off a tear gas canister in a school to test the kids now. lol.
My father was one of those British schoolchildren, he was born here in the US and had dual citizenship until he joined the US Merchant Marine at age 17.
At the outbreak of the war all the kids from Dundee where he lived were sent north of the city with their mothers, my father being the oldest was sent to live in a hotel in Stonehaven, his siblings about a mile away.
My grandfather stayed behind and dug out and built an Anderson bomb shelter for the family and a few more for a few neighbors (one a double amputee from WWI).
The family returned after a few months and used the shelter (knee deep with water) during a few target of opportunity bombings of Dundee.
My father’s family was the only family not to suffer a death from fighting or malnutrition on his street - he said my grandmother’s garden and stretching out the available food by making soups saved them.
Thanks NYer.
Wow!