Some history for Vince & Alan

[vince hughes]

Map of the London Blitz
The rest of can take look too.

Peter,

The nice bit about the link is that the first face of the page is on my part of London (south-east London in the borough of Southwark).

You can see the bomb that hit my grandads house. Go south from Southwark Bridge (next one from London Bridge) along Southwark Bridge Road. Then at the junction of Great Suffolk Street, you'll see the bomb. This was early in 41 I think, maybe the end of 1940.

Grandad had a bad time in the war, with 3 brothers killed and his house blown up whilst he was on night shift at a bomb-sights factory. Fortunately, his wife (my nan) and son (dad), were staying the night at my Great-Grandads house, and therefore were not killed.

The site is an office car-park now (at 324 Southwark Bridge Road). I worked this beat as a cop for 12 years before moving to another station (precinct). It was only in my last couple of years there I even realised that this was the old family home before I had arrived on planet Earth