Very early WW2 years.

[j.sabourn]

I collected postage stamps as a kid and the German ones all had Hitlers head on them it must have been about 1948 that I realised I didn’t have anymore. Just as a matter of interest I wonder what year it was that his head disappeared off the German postage and what sort of value those old collectors items would bring today ? JS

[Fouro]

Hello again to everyone on site. I hope this post which describes what took place in my home area. Just click on html-
https://falkirklocalhistory.club/wars/
pow-camp-64/

Fouro.

[Fouro]

To Vernon, could you please cancel post #12 for me.
Fouro.

[John F Collier]

To Vernon, could you please cancel post #12 for me.
Fouro.

Hi Fouro, Vernon is on holiday until end of April, cheers.

[John F Collier]

I still have vivid memories of getting across London by the underground system mainly to Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital every month for some time during the era mainly of the V1 period , from Kingston on Thames. I had a walking plaster on my left foot for some time for correction for a misgrown bone in the foot. This had to be renewed at regular periods and replaced . Falling out of bed one night the household thought they had received a direct hit by a proverbial rocket. Transport when not in the tube system was getting a piggyback by my mother when dodging from one station to the next above ground. JS

People from all over London used the underground tube stations to shelter from the bombing raids John, whole family's would sleep over night as they were seen as
the safest place you could be in an air raid. On one occasion in 1943 the ai raid sirens gave their warning and the local residents made a dash for the for the tube station
at Bethnal Green, people were rushing to get down the stairs to the safety of the underground station, there was much panic and as the crowd reached the bottle neck of
the stairway they just piled into each other, there was getting on for 200 people killed in the crush, a terrible event. cheers

[j.sabourn]

Yes read about that years after the war John . But already knew about the people using as air raid shelters as saw them and their bedding many times.JS

[Des Taff Jenkins]

A funny thing happened yesterday, I was frozen off the site, tried everything my comp said they had informed the site about my problem, I think it was one of those wartime gremlins,my son said he would look into it this morning but so far its OK,the only thing is now I can't use my likes and thanks button.
Des

[j.sabourn]

#17. can’t thank you for this post either Des , as mines not working either. JS

[j.sabourn]

#17. can’t thank you for this post either Des , as mines not working either. JS

[Fred Saunders]

I and my family lived a little way out of the town of Chepstow, during the war ( and after of course ) our school, Chepstow Boy's School was over looking the Chepstow ship yard and across to the Beachley Army Training Camp, when the air raid siren went, we would go to the shelters, some of us ( stupid as we were and in trouble with our teachers ) would go outside to see what was going on. A few bombs were dropped around our area, but no real damage was done. Maybe the German Air force didn't think the landing craft being built in the ship yard was ever going to be used by the British, ???

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I and my family lived a little way out of the town of Chepstow, during the war ( and after of course ) our school, Chepstow Boy's School was over looking the Chepstow ship yard and across to the Beachley Army Training Camp, when the air raid siren went, we would go to the shelters, some of us ( stupid as we were and in trouble with our teachers ) would go outside to see what was going on. A few bombs were dropped around our area, but no real damage was done. Maybe the German Air force didn't think the landing craft being built in the ship yard was ever going to be used by the British, ???
Fred Saunders