Did anyone else watch this? Very interesting (to me) series that aimed to give an impression of the experience of living through the Blitz using, in addition to personal recollections, a recreation of typical 1940-era terraced housing that was built on a military base and subjected to explosions of varying sizes to simulate the effect of different German weapons. I’ve read a lot of military history, but this really helped to bring home something of the flavor of what people endured. Hosted by Tony Robinson, aka Baldrick from Blackadder, and available on Youtube.
I watched the programme about the V weapons.
Awesome and chilling at the same time.
My father (eighty next week) remembers getting ‘up close and personal’ with pretty nearly all the bombs mentioned on the programme (he lived on the borders of Kent and south London - the north end of what was known as ‘bomb alley’).
Towards the end of the war, he was narrowly missed by both a V1 (the one that landed in Lewisham Market) and a V2 (which landed in Hither Green cemetary with predictably gruesome results) as well as being strafed by a Focke-Wulf 190 during the raid of January 1943 that destroyed Sandhurst school in Catford.
Living history indeed!