posted on 2024-06-05, 19:13authored byTheir Finest Hour Project Team
My dad (Robert (Bob) Gray) was a little boy during the war- he would have been 8 years old. During the air raids, they always stood at the top of the cellar steps. One day, this bomb landed in his street. It took out one of the chimney pots of a neighbouring house and landed in the road, and the force of the impact (the bomb didn't explode) - a 2-ton bomb - made the whole house shake and threw him down the stairs. Till the day he died, he had a scar on his knee as a result of a cut from being thrown down the stairs. This was in Cross Street, Strood in Kent, and he lived at number 15.
History
Item list and details
1. Photos of Robert Gray
2. Newpaper article about the bomb landing in Cross Street, Strood
Person the story/items relate to
Robert Gray
Person who shared the story/items
Anthony Gray
Relationship between the subject of the story and its contributor
Robert Gray was the contributor's father.
Type of submission
Shared at Medway Archives Centre, Kent on 8 November 2023.