I was 9 at the time and my memories are marred by somebody throwing an Army thunderflash into the bonfire for a joke which blew its contents out burning the faces and arms of some nearby school friends.
Interesting ekim, I also remember being stood up in one of those old butler sinks being washed by my mother and the window right next to me suddenly disintegrated the my mother wrapping towels around me in a great hurry then carrying me away, that's all I remember of that event.
Later when I was that little bit older I found out that that previous event was a V 2 that took out a block of houses about 100 meters long by 60 meters and these unfortunate houses were about 90 meters away from our own house.
This now has reminded me of how common it was as I was growing up to play on these bomb sites all over Wood Green North London, how the BBC's Alexander Palace, also in Wood Green didn't get flattened too, perhaps the large ariel was too good a fixed point, a datum for the German bombers.
Regards, ippy.
