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This story was submitted to the People’s War site by a volunteer from Swindon College on behalf of Iris Dillon and has been added to the site with her permission. Iris fully understands the site’s terms and conditions.

I was working in the Paymaster General’s Office near Millbank. There had been a great deal of activity in the air- many incendiary bombs had been dropped further in towards Westminster. I saw bombs being dropped in the area around St Thomas’s Hospital. We had an underground shelter where all the social events were held. There were also table tennis tables and a squash court, but on this particular day I had not gone into the shelter.

Suddenly our building was hit, floors and walls gave way and I found myself hanging on to a part of the top floor with my fingers. Most of the building had disappeared. I hung on with my fingertips. It seemed such a long time before I was rescued by the firemen.

Later I discovered how lucky I had been as 2 cleaners who were very close to the area where I was, had been killed.

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