It's a Wednesday and at noon our city tests its tornado warning system, a long blasting sound, something perhaps similar to an air raid signal? I don't know.
How frightening that must have been.
"The misery was made even worse by the blackout, the most detested disruption of the war, which in the words of one historian, 'transformed conditions of life more thoroughly than any other single feature of the conflict. During the phone war period it was far more dangerous to walk the streets of London at night than to be at the front in France."
Total blackness! I experienced that once years ago while on a cave expedition. We spent the night and it was very scary; we couldn't tell the floor from the wall from the ceiling. I slept very little as we were interrupting the bats and later we heard humans were not allowed to do that anymore.
Were there air raid shelters in WWI?
Thanks, HAROLD, for your informative, as always, posts on England's strengths, current and historical. And, yes, I've always wondered about the Maginot Line; that just seems so ridiculous that France believed in it! After WWI particularly!
ANN, you are so right about technology today; our impatience, we live in a fast world. I often wish it were not so, but then we would not be gathered here to discuss Britain, Chamberlain, and WWII.
PATH: We are waiting for you to catch up and post your opinions! You are always so astute!
And, BOOKAD, we are happy you got home safely with spring awaiting! Isn't it wonderful! Thanks for your post. Can you imagine sending children off not knowing why and the misery of doing nothing! And not being told by your government or the media what was going on?
And the Ministry of Information! (pgs.251-252) Some of that is hilarious!
BABI, thanks for that site, that photo of the little boy is precious with his knee socks and his little case. How dreadful for parents and the children to be so disrupted of family life!