Your V2 Memories
Incident in Ilford by Terry Horner.
Incident 484 – Sydney Road, Hornsey, 8 January 1945 by Paul Hockaday.
Incident 568 – Calton Road East Barnet – SAVED FROM THE V2, 20 JANUARY 1945 by Paul and Roger Lansley.
Incident 625 – A V2 in Usk Rd and Petergate – Battersea 1945 – a survivors’ account by Dennis Weatherley.
Incident 689 – St Nicholas Church, Plumstead, 6 February 1945 by Bob Walker.
Incident 857 – Additional information on strike on Ash Platt road, Seal, Sevenoaks by John Cuthbertson
Incident 1076 – Harrow by Chris Bryant.
I was born three years after this incident and lived in Ridgeway East, which runs parallel, and my bedroom window, which was metal framed, would never close properly, apparently as a result of this blast!
My mother, who used to come home on the 132 bus from Eltham, said the conductor used to call out the nearby stop on Blackfen Road as “Hellfire Corner”!