Showing posts with label Air Raid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Air Raid. Show all posts
Sunday 14th December 1941
Got home about nine. Don came over. Hilda Don & I went down the lane. Rained all day so Don stopped all day.
Saturday 1st November 1941
Did not go to work. Don came over in afternoon. Got remainder of my wool then went to the Gaumont. Air Raid warning 1.15 pm to 11pm. Went to meet Hilda from a dance.
Thursday 5th June 1941
Funny morning after a violent storm & air raid. Saw Don & went to Chelsea Palace. Not very good.
Friday 16th May 1941
Lovely morning for a change. Stayed in for a change. Warning during the night woke me up, but went to sleep again.
Saturday 10th May 1941
Went to Wembley Stadium to see the Cup Final with Freddie. Match was a draw. Had a bad air raid. Fires all round. Went to bed at 5am.
Sunday 4th May 1941
Went to tea at Mrs. Foord's. The 1st day of summer. Lovely weather. Went down Horse & Groom later on. Air Raid during night.
Saturday 3rd May 1941
Lovely morning. Went to Metropole with Freddie. Saw "Arise My Love" & "Ghost Train". Both very good. Went down Six Bells. Later Air Raid as soon as Freddie got to the station.
Tuesday 22nd April 1941
Lovely morning. Went to dance at Battersea Town Hall. Air Raid. Walked most of way home. Soon all clear.
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Met Don.
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Met Don.
Monday 21st April 1941
Going to Metropole with Freddie. Saw Marlene Dietrich in Seven Summers [sic - assume she means Seven Sinners]. Quite good. Short air raid.
Wednesday 16th April 1941
Worst Blitz of the War. Land Mine at Cranmer Court. 3 bombs in Sydney St & Womens Hospital hit. Chelsea Old Church down to ground, Pensioners hit again. Went to London Pavilion with Freddie. He got home 3.45 a.m.
Thursday 3rd April 1941
Went to Dominion with F. Saw George Formby in Spare A Copper [VHS] [1941]
. Not so hot. Air Raid Warning at 10.40pm. 2 or 3 after.
. Not so hot. Air Raid Warning at 10.40pm. 2 or 3 after. 
Wednesday 19th March 1941
Had ½ day. Went to the pictures with mum. Went to Aunt Mary’s & stripped her wall. Very heavy raid.
On this day: a 500 bomber raid on the docks and East End of London killed 750 people and injured over a 1000 people seriously.
On this day: a 500 bomber raid on the docks and East End of London killed 750 people and injured over a 1000 people seriously.
Thursday 13th March 1941
Stopped in all evening. Jerry paid us another visit. Dad on all night duty.
On this day: Glasgow is hit by its first significant air raid of the war. Because Clydebank, Scotland, with its vast areas of dockland, lay so far north, its citizens dared to hope that they were safely beyond the range of German bombers. However, on the nights of March 13-14 and 14-15, they were disabused of any such hopes when 400 bombers dropped more than 500 tons of high-explosive bombs and 2,400 incendiaries on Clydebank. In addition to devastating the docks, only eight of 12,000 houses escaped damage. Approximately 35,000 people became homeless and more than 1,000 were killed. The resulting fires were visible 100 miles away.
On this day: Glasgow is hit by its first significant air raid of the war. Because Clydebank, Scotland, with its vast areas of dockland, lay so far north, its citizens dared to hope that they were safely beyond the range of German bombers. However, on the nights of March 13-14 and 14-15, they were disabused of any such hopes when 400 bombers dropped more than 500 tons of high-explosive bombs and 2,400 incendiaries on Clydebank. In addition to devastating the docks, only eight of 12,000 houses escaped damage. Approximately 35,000 people became homeless and more than 1,000 were killed. The resulting fires were visible 100 miles away.
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