The Cellar on Remembered Street
In September 1940, the German Luftwaffe dropped incendiary bombs across London for fifty-seven consecutive nights. Margaret Braithwaite, a schoolteacher on Albion Road in Lewisham, described...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Nahum 1:7.
In September 1940, the German Luftwaffe dropped incendiary bombs across London for fifty-seven consecutive nights. Margaret Braithwaite, a schoolteacher on Albion Road in Lewisham, described in her diary what it meant to hear the air-raid sirens at dusk. Every evening, she gathered her three children and descended into the Anderson shelter her husband had dug into their small garden before shipping out to North Africa.…
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