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Childhood
A Memory of Kingstanding.
Funny how seeing Memories of Kingstanding title, it brought back so many thoughts of living there in childhood to my 20s. The Geman plane that dropped its bomb on a house in Hurlingham Road, hiding under stairs at school as the planes went over it, causing the building to shake with flying over it so low. The German POW's repairing the Kingstanding Road by the Settlement and my mother making me walk past them very quickly so I would be unable to speak to them. The Barrage Balloon landing on a house in Dulwich Road and all us kids running there to see it. My dad did firewatching at his works all through the war so our mom had to make sure we were in the shelter on her own, it must have been a hell for her as she had 4 of us to cope with. My youngest brother at that time was born in 1941 so he had a Mickie Mouse gas mask, I hated my gas mask, it made me so hot and breathless, they were ghastly to wear. Who else remembers them like that?
The winter of 1947 was bad in Kingstanding, you couldn't stand up on the ice, and to add to this problem my grandma (a real Black Country woman) died on Christmas Eve and they couldn't bury her because the ground was so frozen.
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