Incendiaries at Overtown Farm, Cranham

This story has been contributed to the People's War by the BBC Learning Centre, Gloucester, on behalf of Tom Overs with his permission.

I was nine when war broke out and growing up in the village of Cranham, near Gloucester.

One night the farm situated on the high ground to the east of Cranham, called Overtown, was attacked with incendiary bombs. I don’t know why unless they had left a chink of light showing.

At the time the farm was home to two evacuees, a brother and sister. At school next day they wold us how the farmer and his men had spent all night putting out the fires which had been started by the bombs. They also brought in to show us the small fins from the incendiaries which they wanted to sell for 2/6 (12p) a time.

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