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- Family History Day - The National Archives
- People in story:Ìý
- Evelyn Mary Semlyen (nee Cooke)
- Location of story:Ìý
- Mill Hill North West London NW7
- Background to story:Ìý
- Civilian
- Article ID:Ìý
- A3366182
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 04 December 2004
I was born in 1938, nonetheless there are some memories of WW2 that may be of some use. The air raid shelter we had I have not heard of elsewhere but this may just be because no one knows of the search.
Dad had moved our bedroom downstairs and the ceiling was covered in sheets of corrugated iron, these were fixed with nails/bolts (?), also there were four pit props/telegraph poles to hold up the ceiling and floor above.
We had a shelter at Dollis School, this was a classic one, underground, we had lessons and lunches in it. We like others, carried our gas masks over our shoulders. My father was in the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Guard, a Lieutenant, he did Fire Watch at Unilever House. Father-in-Law was a member of the ARP, in Finchley.
Being near Hendon Aerodrome, we had a number of Flying Bombs, Doodle Bugs and many Incendiaries, and lost a group of young people from the Youth Fellowship from St Michael And All Angels Church in an Air-raid.
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