| David Richerby 2005-02-21, 5:49 pm |
| (I've probably broken the threading, here. I tried to make this appear as
a followup to Spam Scone's post by diddling with the References: header
but it looked a bit mangled to start with. Let's see what happens...)
Spam Scone wrote:
quote:
> Nick wrote:
Actually, at that time, the constituent parts of what are now Greater
London were parts of the surounding counties. (I believe this continued
until 1972, though I may be wrong.) Blackheath (south-east London) was
part of Kent and is about fifteen miles from a variety of places that can
reasonably be described as North London -- places as far out as Golders
Green, Wood Green, Walthamstow and what have you.
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> 'A V1 rocket fell on a house in Gauden Road, Clapham, London, that was
> the residence of Russian-born Vera Menchik, her younger sister and their
> mother. The trio were sheltering in the cellar, as they usually did
> during the Nazi air raids on London. The house was completely
> destroyed. The air-raid shelter in the garden was all that was left.'
> (BCM tribute, August 1994)
Clapham would have been in Surrey at this time and is also within about
fifteen miles of all the places I mentioned above.
Dave.
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