Mainly I suppose, those caused by the war because I didn’t know that it was war time and I thought that that was normal life. Just across the road where the grass is wider we had a public air raid shelter and some nights we would have to go and sleep there. We had a British restaurant in South Lodge on Ham Common and we would go and have lunch […]
Category: Ham at War
Correcting bomb landing locations – by EB
There were houses bombed in my road, I went to the Library a few years ago and they had a childrens’ exhibition all about the war in Ham and one part said no bombs fell in Ham and I went and told the Librarian that’s wrong, the bombs did fall in Ham and she said could you write me an article about it, so I wrote an article about how […]
Prisoners of war at Latchmere House – by KS
Of course where the prison was, Latchmere, that used to be a Prisoner of War camp. Can you remember much about that? No, not really, I mean we were forbidden to go near it and that used to be a Prisoner of War camp.