Comments on: Description of a V2 Impact

By: Martin Avey

Martin Avey — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 08:39:01 +0000

My aunt and uncle were made homeless when the V2 fell on Court Lane, Dulwich at 17:06 on 06/01/1945 and damaged their home in Dovercourt Road. They came to stay with my grandparents and parents in Malfort Road, Peckham.
At 22:40 that same day, a V2 fell on Azenby Road, Peckham, the shock waves bringing down the ceiling and crushing my cot. Because of the obvious upheaval in our house at the time, my mother had brought me from my cot. She was certain that had I been in the cot I could not have survived.
Having been born on 24/11/1944, I was forty-four days old on that day.

By: Jonathan Carter

Jonathan Carter — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 23:30:06 +0000

In reply to dave williams. My mother, Ann Middleton, went to your school and lived on Kings Head Hill. The house was heavily damaged but my grandmother survived with minor injuries. The story goes that the bus my father, John Carter, was on was running five minutes late and should have been there if on time. My parents met at that school.

By: Jacqui Adams

Jacqui Adams — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 05:54:08 +0000

My mum survived a V2 rocket hit 6 March 1945 . On 6th March 1945 a V2 landed on Earlham Grove, destroying a number of houses. In 6 Earlham Grove the following were killed. Mark Golding 63, Sarah his wife 61, Hilda a daughter aged 30, Jack a son aged 23, Sadie his wife aged 22 and their 2 year old Geofrey. My mum, aged 14 was a grand daughter to Mark and Sarah. She remained alive buried under rubble for 2 to 3 days until dug out.

By: dave williams

dave williams — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 16:09:18 +0000

Incident 536 Jan 15 1945 09-07am

It was school assembly at CCHS on Nevin Drive. Some 400 pupils sat in a hall that featured a couple of ‘Port-hole windows (some 4ft in diameter) on the north side and floor to ceiling glass, nearly as tall as a house, on the majority of the south side.
At 09-07 an orange flash crossed the ceiling from the porthole windows. There was the thunder of a vast explosion and the complete glass wall of the south side bent outwards and then came back to its normal position. NOT A PANE OF GLASS WAS BROKEN. There was as far as I can remember no panic.
On returning to my classroom on the Northside of the building the window against which I sat was glass shards spread across the rest of the room.
I celebrated my 13th birthday the following day
The rocket fell just off King’s Head Hill, about 3 to 4 hundred yards away from the school.
We later learnt that the mother of one of girls was killed in the incident.