Blackouts and Bombing Raids

One night I was working late, I was alone on the fourth floor of No. 20 Lincoln’s Inn Fields and it was a London fog, a dense London fog with a blackout, couldn’t see a thing. A London fog was not like a Vancouver fog which was pure white and clean. Because of the coal burned it was a dirty situation. We were visiting a station and the building was strafed, there was the V-1's and the V-2's and then the regular bombing raids. You can imagine with the bombs coming over, the heavy explosive bombs and the incendiaries, so there were fires all around where I was living and we did have a heavy explosive bomb land in the back garden but it was a dud, it didn’t go off, had it gone off I wouldn’t be talking to you today.