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The Fire
Watch
This story
was submitted by Chris Foord of the Greenwich Heritage Centre
on behalf of James Liddle
I lived on Majendie Road during the war
and my father was in charge of the fire watch roster. We all
had to take our turn fire watching because in Sept 1940 they
tried to set London alight with incendiary bombs. At one time
they were rolling down Griffin Road, Plumstead, like sticks
of rock! After that we had the air raids and the shrapnel came
down. AA guns used to come around the streets firing at the
enemy aircraft and you could just hear the 'ping ping ping'
of the shrapnel coming down. We survived the bombing. One afternoon,
my father, Kitty's father and myself, were just by the air raid
shelter in the garden when a German plane crashed into the next
road.
At
the end of Majendie Road, adjacent to Griffin Rd, they built
great big concrete pillars to stop enemy tanks in case we got
invaded.
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