Hounslow Town Hall

A Memory of Hounslow.

I lived in Hounslow and Whitton until I was 18 and went to college. We were here all through the war except for six months when we we were bombed out by a doodlebug which fell about 100 yards from our house in Ark Close. My dad was on duty in the town hall, manning the control post when the country was on the brink of invasion. There was a green light, which would have turned red had the Germans invaded and while dad was on duty, the light  briefly turned red before flicking back to green again. When the war was over, he took me down Treaty Road to see the effigy of Hitler hung across the road. I had nightmares for months afterwards