| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Words going out of use | |
| Posted by: | Jim Lawes | |
| Date/Time: | 21/09/24 12:04:00 |
| They were noisy Bombs Janet but quietish aircraft. I recall that the "Doddlebug" had a red light on it's body ... if the light went out a bomb would be falling. In February 1944 a doddlebug dropped a bomb on the United Dairies Depot in Sutton Lane near the junction with Barrowgate Road. Twelve horses were killed. One second later the "bugger" dropped another bomb on houses in Wolseley Gardens (north side) at the junction with Whitehall Park Road. Five locals were killed sadly. The event is never commemorated. If the bomb had been a split second later ... many of us in air raid shelters etc wouldn't be here today. Collecting "SHAPNEL" was a youngster's activity on bomb sites during the War. ... and there were many such sites in Chiswick. As Macmillan said (60 odd years ago) " YOU'VE NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD"! |