... unusual birthday present for Brenda: an incendiary bomb in her garden . Fortunately nobody was hurt. Other entries, taken at random. include: bombs in Becmead Avenue, Kenton, on January 28, 1941; bombs at Stanmore on June 2 the same year; no raids at all ...

... August 15th 1945. Ten people were hurt and part of Barclays Bank destroyed. If a bomb fell anywhere, the news would go around like a grapevine, so we all knew where the bombs had fallen, says Brenda. A newspaper cuttingpasted into the diary reads: Bntain's ...