Hi Ian, My nan’s sister Margaret also died at 108 Iverson Road on 8th Jan 1945, I have no idea why she was at that address as they lived at 47 Iverson Road, my nan was evacuated in 1939 so she probably wasn’t told alot about her sister’s death as she was only young at the time, all my nan told me about her sister was she died when a wall fell on her during the war.

Hi,
My uncle was killed in that bombing, 08, Jan 1945 – he lived at 108 Iverson Road. He was 11, his three brothers survived.
I’m trying to find anyone who knew them. The information i do have is vague (my dad didn’t speak much about his awful experience). Thanks.

The bomb landed and went off about mid-morning on Friday January 26th.1945. Our part of the school, the junior block, was wooden, like many others put up by Essex County Council between WW1 and WW2. Approaching V2s broke the sound barrier there was a double bang. This one was so close that the two bangs almost merged into one. Being wooden the walls of our classroom bent first towards the explosion and then sprung back away from it, depositing the glass from the windows in the playground outside. No one in our part of the school was injured but in the infants’ school, a brick building, several were hurt when the plaster ceilings came down.

The school was closed for the rest of that term and some of us were sent to North Street school in Hornchurch. We squeezed into what was an already full classroom where the local children were already proficient at long division. We had never done it and it was a struggle to catch up.

My mother was pregnant with me and she was also waiting for a 124 bus to get to work, like your mother my mum was knocked down and was given a lift by the coalman on his horse drawn cart to lewisham hospital. As you can see she was ok i was born in the following august. We lived in the prefabs, i think we lived over the butchers shop in boundfield road.

I was eleven years old on that evening when the V2 landed on Tewksbury Road at 7.52 Saturday 20th January 1945 I and my family were more than likely waiting to listen to Saturday night theatre then Appointment with fear on the wireless. We were living in Henry Road a culdesac off of St Anns Road. At the end of my road ran a high railway bank and St Anns Railway station, which separated us from I believe Morton Road and Tewksbury Road. We, my grandparents, mother myself and my six-month-old baby sister were in my grandparent’s room at the front of the house-sharing the warmth from the only fire we could afford and sharing our ration of coal. I do not seem to be able to recall an explosion, the thing I recall is the heavy blackout curtains billowing out. the room filling with smoke when soot and cinders flew from the grate setting the carpet on fire. So we lost all our windows and front door which we never did find. if it had not been for the embankment we would have suffered the blast a great deal more. battens to It seemed only minutes before men turned up with tarred paper and battens to bar up the gaping holes where our windows should have been and place us another temporary front door. When we went to our bedroom upstairs glass shards were buried in the door and walls like daggers, anyone in the at the time would have been cut to pieces. all the damaged materials were placed in the middle of the roasd and set alight the next day iand a few others who were not evacuated had a great time roasting potatoes. after this incident, all the damaged and empty houses became our playground. I believe my cousins the Keasleys were killed in this incident

On Friday 26th January 1945, a V2 rocket landed immediately outside our back garden fence. I’m told that the windows fell in, covering me in my pram, but I slept blissfully throughout. This was in Fencepiece Road. Both my parents were at work, and I was in the care of a friend. I was never told of any casualties, or any damage other than the windows. In later childhood, after we had moved house, we often visited the lady who still lived in the house, and I remember the crater in the field at the end of the garden, but no obvious damage anywhere else. We seem to have been very lucky. Though the rocket landed in the field, it was only yards from the house. Is there somewhere I can find any further information re this incident?

It was my cousin Dereck’s 7th or 8th Birthday and we My father Reginald Kilbey, my mother Gladys and myself were invited for lunch. Due to my fathers work (a musician) he had a last minute session and at my mothers insistence cancelled the lunch invitation. I understand the V2 exploded about 1.30pm killing a number of people including my Grand father Henry Kilbey, his daughter Else Glover and my cousin Martin Glover. We three were lucky to be safe in Edgeware.