The Bethnal Green Tube Disaster
Added 2022-01-04 11:15:00 +0000 UTCIn this video I quote Alf Morris, a survivor who was interviewed by the author of Spitalfields Life in February 2010. I use only a small part of the interview in the video, but it really is worth reading the whole thing. Alf gives such a clear and moving description of what it was like to be caught up in the disaster as it unfolded.
Here's another little extract, and here's where you can read the full thing:
"On 3rd March, 1943, at a quarter to eight, in our home at 106 Old Ford Road, the radio went off, as it did every time there was an air raid. My father, Alfred George Morris, insisted that me and my aunt, Lilian Hall, go to the tube to shelter. As we crossed Victoria Park Sq, the air-raid siren sounded. In Bethnal Green Gardens, between the Toy Museum and St John’s Church, there was a radio controlled searchlight that came on..."
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