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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
I used to play in the bomb shelter in the back of my Nan's house and in the bombed out houses when I was a kid.
Funny story.
While I was taking a 3 year holiday in Europe, hitch hiking to get around. I was picked up by a German guy and we got talking. He asked me where I lived and I said Loughton, Essex. So he replies he knows the place.
So I ask him if he had ever been there. No he replies, he only flew over it trying to avoid the Spitfires coming up to get him. |
Small world, i live near Loughton, i've worked there in the past and went to college there.
I'm also old enough (just!) to remember seeing gaps in areas of London in the 1970's where bomb sites hadn't yet been rebuilt on.