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Nov 30^th, 2009 at 3:30pm

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The local newspaper has just published some photos taken of my home town & the surrounding area during WWII. I wasn't born at the time most of these were taken but I was brought up in nearby Lancing. I was surprised to see the amount of bomb damage as Worthing was never the target of a concentrated air raid.

http://www.worthingherald.co.uk/CustomPages/CustomPage.aspx?SectionID=10367

http://www.worthingherald.co.uk/CustomPages/CustomPage.aspx?SectionID=10368

http://www.worthingherald.co.uk/CustomPages/CustomPage.aspx?SectionID=10365

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Reply #1 - Nov 30^th, 2009 at 7:27pm

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Glad I wasn't there.

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I wasn't born at the time most of these were taken but I was brought up in nearby Lancing.

Dropped by parachute or were you a package bomb?

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Reply #2 - Nov 30^th, 2009 at 7:39pm

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Thanks for the links Doug...very interesting.

Unbelievable that in the last link number "War 67" that they would machine gun a school. Lips Sealed

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

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Reply #3 - Nov 30^th, 2009 at 7:40pm

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H wrote on Nov 30^th, 2009 at 7:27pm:

Glad I wasn't there.

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I wasn't born at the time most of these were taken but I was brought up in nearby Lancing.

Dropped by parachute or were you a package bomb?

Mum told me I was found under a gooseberry bush. She didn't say how I got there. Cheesy

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Reply #4 - Nov 30^th, 2009 at 7:43pm

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Flying Trucker wrote on Nov 30^th, 2009 at 7:39pm:

Thanks for the links Doug...very interesting.

Unbelievable that in the last link number "War 67" that they would machine gun a school. Lips Sealed

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

These things happen in wartime Doug. A friend of mine was machine-gunned by a Bf 109 while on his way home from school. He was about 9 years old at the time. Fortunately he wasn't hit. He was evacuated soon afterwards.

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Reply #5 - Nov 30^th, 2009 at 8:44pm

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Hagar wrote on Nov 30^th, 2009 at 7:40pm:

a gooseberry bush

My grandfather grew those in his Edinburgh garden - my absolute favorites and I've never seen them over here.

THIS IS NOT A PANAM CLIPPER

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Reply #6 - Dec 1^st, 2009 at 6:32am

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Mum told me I was found under a gooseberry bush. She didn't say how I got there.

My parents told me they got me from the bargain section at Sainsbury's.... and they wonder why I'm maladjusted Grin

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Reply #7 - Dec 1^st, 2009 at 11:57am

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The one thing that the destruction from Bombing created, was to destroy many of the dismal, damp, cold, poorly constructed buildings left over from centuries beforehand, and encouraged the construction of many of the modern buildings we see today in our Towns and Cities!

I see a vast difference to all the buildings in, and around my Town since the 1930's and 1940's.
The modern construction explosion following WW II led to the demolition of all the old, falling-apart, out-of-date buildings...and brightened the whole area up, to what it is today!...

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Parts of London (and my Town) were awful, pre 1950!... Cry

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Reply #8 - Dec 1^st, 2009 at 3:07pm

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Hagar wrote on Nov 30^th, 2009 at 7:40pm:

Mum told me I was found under a gooseberry bush. She didn't say how I got there. Cheesy

Stork.

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