Cathnor Road - Shepherds Bush
my Mum's sister Aunt Tory and Uncle Bill ASHLEY
lived there and it gave me an
important date too - Westville school was destroyed 20/21 Feb
1944.
We were
at Aunt's that night in the basement when the raid to get St
Paul's school
took place (D-Day was being planned there). All the windows were
blown in and we were told to leave so all of us left to go our flat at Emlyn
Gardens.
We had to walk back past the school which was blazing.
You can walk the route on the map - north up Cathnor - Goodwin - Batson - Haydn Park - across Askew Rd and then along Cobbold Road.
Half way down we went into the shelters in Wendell Park and then the
All Clear again so we continued to our
flat at Emlyn
Gardens and were told not to go in front room as an unexploded bomb in the
middle courtyard.
What a night. surprising what you can recall from age 6 - must have
been trauma.