Wartime Story.

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Member Since: July 2005 Posts: 23,508 Send Message	₪ TeresaW elite empress of deleted threads&#	Report	8 Nov 2009 19:54
Member Since: July 2005 Posts: 23,508 Send Message	Just dragged out all my old files, it will have been 43 Dirlston Road, West Ham. I know it's no longer standing, though there is a Durlston Road in Hackney.
Member Since: July 2005 Posts: 23,508 Send Message	₪ TeresaW elite empress of deleted threads&#	Report	8 Nov 2009 19:40
Member Since: July 2005 Posts: 23,508 Send Message	Maz I think it was Liddington Road? Not quiet sure though... That may have been the street they lived in after the war.
Member Since: November 2002 Posts: 11,301 Send Message	Maz (the Royal One) in the East End 9256	Report	8 Nov 2009 19:00
	what street in Stratford did she live in Teresa?! my family were there in WW2 too ! Maz. XX
Member Since: July 2005 Posts: 23,508 Send Message	₪ TeresaW elite empress of deleted threads&#	Report	8 Nov 2009 18:13
Member Since: July 2005 Posts: 23,508 Send Message	YOu should Mac. Todays children need to hear the memories direct from the horse's mouth, as they say. My dad was evacuated, but brought back again within weeks, his mum missed him too much and couldn't bear to be parted. He remembers walking down the street when the doodlebugs nearby. They've re-built it now, but the old West Stand at West Ham football club took a bomb, you could see the different coloured bricks where they rebuilt it.
Member Since: October 2008 Posts: 13,848 Send Message	StrayKitten	Report	8 Nov 2009 17:53
	can u imainge they fighting hten suddenl decide oh its christmas so we wont bother today haha i love eden camp for all the war time memories, sounds and even smells "there gross" lol, and no matter how many times you go you see new things my grandad was a POW, and told some tales xxx
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Member Since: July 2005 Posts: 23,508 Send Message	₪ TeresaW elite empress of deleted threads&#	Report	8 Nov 2009 17:45
Member Since: July 2005 Posts: 23,508 Send Message	Me too stray, my other Grandad that is, he was in WW1 in the trenches. He had many tales to tell, especially of the Christmas Truce.
Member Since: October 2008 Posts: 13,848 Send Message	StrayKitten	Report	8 Nov 2009 17:44
	i used to love sitting on my grandads knee, and listenign to his war time stories xxx
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Member Since: February 2006 Posts: 37,870 Send Message	Silly Sausage	Report	8 Nov 2009 17:37
	pmsl hard as nails can imagine the country putting up with that now...lol
Member Since: July 2005 Posts: 23,508 Send Message	₪ TeresaW elite empress of deleted threads&#	Report	8 Nov 2009 17:35
Member Since: July 2005 Posts: 23,508 Send Message	I've just been chatting to my mum on the phone, and talking about London in WW2. I vaguely remember a story concerning an egg, and bombs. Mum said that would be the story of my Great Grandmother, who lived next door to my grandparents in Stratford. A bombing raid started one breakfast time, but Nan King had somehow come across a fresh egg and was going to eat it for her breakfast, air raid or no air raid. She refused to go to the shelters. The street took a direct hit that morning. Nan King was found, still sitting at her table, half a window frame round her neck, covered in brickdust and rubble shouting 'B**y Hitler, can't even 'ave me breakfast in peace, and now I've gorn and lost me b**y egg!' I bet there were many similar stories from that horrible time....

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