St. Marks School - Arundel Road.
Wartime/air-raids
By Molly Styles
We (my sister) and her school-friends, were sitting by the tamerisk hedge in 1940/41, when two German bombers, who had been flying just above the waves, came and dropped bombs near us. One bomb went down the lift-shaft (500lbs.) of Marine Gate flats. We were very shocked as machine-gun bullets were above and around us.
We spent hours in the air-raid-shelters doing times-tables and singing Marie Lloyd,s Welsh-favourite songs.
My dad Norman Holford, born 1908, was 1st cousin to Frederick Holford born 1906 at Blackrock farm.
I would like to make contact with Chris Holford my 2nd cousin.
I enjoyed the Black Rock Farm article.
Molly Styles (nee-Holford).
This page was added on 23/04/2010.