Every one did their turn of fire watching at their office or factory. Link to school’s website is here: Hi Caley street is near Ben Johnson Road,there was and I think still is a school there my mother went there. At the time, it was a hub for imports and was used to store vital goods for the war effort, making this a prime target for bombing raids. These bombs were in response to the Doolittle Raid, an air raid on Japan, which was itself in response to Pearl Harbor. Well it is still there but suspect it has changed alot,just put into the computer Ackroyd Drive Green Link,Huddart st is the middle road that crosses this green link. At the Girls High School, Fire watching was organised. My Great Grandfather came to Canada as a home child in 1877 although he was 14 at the time. Rescue workers and first- aid teams were on hand in minutes. School children in Japan were asked to make gigantic balloons, thirty-three feet in diameter. Then came the bombing of London, Birmingham, Coventry, Manchester and Liverpool and that unnamed east cost town ‘Hull’ and of course the all embracing South Coast. The area was heavily targeted and bombed by the Germans, and much of the regeneration in the East End came about in the late 1940s and 1950s to repair war damage and rebuild local infrastructures that had disappeared. The North Wing of the Palace was damaged and many Palace windows were blown out. Although you cannot state how many bombs were actually dropped on the East End, the estimates are shocking. Although Japan couldn't match the size and population of a larger country, there were ways to turn the sheer size of the United States against it. The first prototypes were made out of paper, but later ones were made from silk. The real unfairness came when what had been a patriotic duty became regarded later as unfair and unpatriotic, and hoarding became almost criminal. Fashion basically went out of the window as clothes were turned, many clothes were turned inside out and back to front and made up on the other side at least twice and of course lengthened became short and shorter. The older people who had been through the previous war were of course keener to do so than the ‘war will be over by Christmas’ people. In 1941 it was fruit picking in Huntingdonshire. Now living in France. Yes we certainly played together, mainly with Adrian. They were Joseph George Stanton, Mary Ann Elizabeth Stanton and Samuel Edwin Stanton. School activities had to be curtailed because of the war, primarily the black out. The cellars had numerous pipes crossing it and the staff where worried about their fracturing in the event of the school being hit. The fact that so many civilians could potentially be killed or injured in bombing raids also led the Germans to hope that this would reduce support for the war. Vicki Friend. For example, just before Christmas 2017 the bombing was mentioned in A Winter Haunt, a drama staged in Battle Library. D block was the supers office. Five years ago, a memorial plaque to all those killed by the raid was unveiled on the wall of Blandy and Blandy’s solicitors, next to St Laurence’s Church. At and before the beginning of the war, people were encouraged to stock up on food as far as they could because shops could not carry very large stocks. Rationing meant that more girls stayed at school for dinner, before the majority had gone home in the long dinner hour before this, but now school dinners could be bought in addition to ones normal ration, so with the stringency of the rationing in 1941, when the meat ration was reduced to a schillings worth a week, even girls living nearby had dinners in school to obtain the extra food.