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September 3rd 1940 we were bombed out.
Summary
Joan Herbert describes the night the bomb dropped on Albert Road.
Transcript
September 3rd, 1940, we were bombed out. I lived in Albert Road, with my parents and my sister because in 1940, by then my brother had joined the army and we didn’t know exactly where he was. So, my parents couldn’t get in touch with him to tell him we were bombed out, we later found out he was in Italy with the El Alamein campaign and then in Egypt. So that was a very traumatic time of course because four people were killed down there. I can’t remember very much about it thankfully, but my mum had been talking to two of the people who were killed, this was about 10-o-clock at night and my sister and I were in the shelter. Apparently, I was playing up and wanted my mum so my sister went to get my mum to come to pacify me and just as she got into the shelter the bomb dropped and these two men were killed so really I saved my mum’s life.
