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1940-41.
My home was an East Coast seaside town of Cleethorpes For the defence of
an expected German invation,the pier on the beach was blown in two and
barbed wire looped along the railings of the promenade.
I attended a junior school about a mile away, we walked to and from the
school along the road that passed the end of the grove of which I lived. The
army had parked mobile guns the full length of this road, and would tow them
to the promenade in the event of an air raid.
On the way home from school my school pal and I would climb onto these
guns, sit on the seat and pretend to fire them,(seen the army practising in
my grove on a sunday morning ) .
One day as we climbed on to a gun, a low flying german aircraft entered
our road flying down over the guns. A lady flew out of her front door and
pulled us into her house just as the plane flew past, she was expecting it
to machine gun us. It was a smallish plane and we assumed it must have been
a reconnaissance taking photgraphs of the guns.
Just one of the stories I hope the children will like to hear.

Regards , Geoff Nightingale. Age71.

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