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There was a terrible crash quite close, making the building stagger, almost immediately the plunk, plunk, plunk of incendiary bombs above our own roof.

To our surprise at 11.15pm, we peered about us. Above us flames from the living room reddened

the sky, while searchlights swept the heavens, and then the fireman told us bluntly that we were

literally homeless. We'd always counted on being able to shelter in the cellar in the event of being

bombed, but we had reckoned without the AFS flooding, the area was already inches deep in water. So, tired, wet and bedraggled, clinging to each other, and to coats and

wraps and Bob's basket, we floundered along to Limington Road, literally floundered, for the pavement

was rough with loose stones and rubble, the result of the raid. That's Gladys Cox's diary

for the 3rd of October, 1940. It's a wonderful diary that, actually. That's Gladys Cox's diary for the 3rd of October 1940. It's a wonderful diary

that actually. She's an incredibly likable person. She's a bit of a fuss pot. But she writes

beautifully. Her descriptions of London and during the Blitz and the scene she has. She's up in

sort of Hampstead way. So, you know, she's looking down on the city. And it's a wonderful

diary, never been published. It's

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