I was about 8yrs old and had returned from being evacuated, for a weeks holiday, to Hope Cottage. A.E.Dock. There was a very bad air raid and we sheltered in the cellar. When we came out the next morning, there was a big crater where the bomb had dropped, just missing the houses.
The roof and windows of our cottage suffered much damage, and as it was old it was beyond repair. That was the last time I lived in the home where I was born.
To this day I can still hear the bombs screaming down that night, and my Aunt saying," the next one is for us", and being frightened.
No one ever mentions the pasting the dockland took, where people were living, we had a lot of incendiary bombs dropped on all the pit props, which were stacked there. I remember an unexploded one being found by my Grandfather ( Mr Walter Hunter), just near our cellar door.
I've enjoyed visiting your site, I now live in Cambridgeshire, but I'll always be a Geordie at heart.
Sincerely
Brenda Brown (nee Hunter.)