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Post by Les on Dec 13, 2017 17:25:34 GMT
Re the recent posting regarding the "doodle bug" bombing of Maidstone West Station. My Grandfather (Tom Butcher of Cherry Orchard Way Barming) was manning the signal box on that fateful day and I enclose the original Kent Messenger photograph showing the devastation the bomb caused. Fortunately Tom survived with mainly cuts and bruises although he did lose his sight in one eye due to an embedded fragment of glass. Some time later he dictated his graphic description of the event to my Mother which she still has. A few years ago she passed a copy of this and the photograph to Maidstone Historical Society as they were planning to include it in within a specialised area in the revamped Library / Museum devoted to memories of Maidstone in World War Two.
As I have lived in Bristol for the past 35 years I don't know whether this materialised but I would be interested to find out
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Post by Les on Dec 13, 2017 17:27:05 GMT
Dave King
Maidstone I remember it well: Following on from my cousin John Webb's photo of his grandfathers signal box destroyed by the V1, despite his injuries he was only off work for 15 days then he went back, I was living with my gran in lower fant road at the time and the blast cracked the chimney breast and brought the back bedroom ceiling down, also taking out most of the glass from the greenhouses down by the railway line in lower and upper fant.
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