I was born in 1949 and I can remember playing on bombsites in what must have been the middle to late 50’s
Daniel Kemp’s Books
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War Years In London 1939–1945
About Daniel Kemp
Daniel Kemp is a member of The Society of Authors. His introduction to the world of espionage and mystery happened at an early age when his father was employed by the War Office in Whitehall, London, at the end of WWII. However, it wasn’t until after his father died that he showed any interest in anything other than himself! On leaving academia he took on many roles in his working life: a London police officer, mini-cab business owner, pub tenant and licensed London taxi driver, but never did he plan to become a writer. Nevertheless, after a road traffic accident left him suffering from PTSD and effectively—out of paid work for four years, he wrote and self-published his first novel —The Desolate Garden. Within three months of publication, that book was under a paid option to become a $30 million film. The option lasted for five years until distribution became an insurmountable problem for the production company. All ten of his novels are now published by CNext Chapter with the tenth novel being a two-part ending to the Heirs and Descendants Series. A Covenant of Spies completed the four-book series alongside: What Happened In Vienna, Jack? Once I Was A Soldier and A Widow's Son. Under the Creativia publishing banner, The Desolate Garden went on to become a bestselling novel in World and Russian Literature in 2017. The following year, in May 2018, his book What Happened In Vienna, Jack? was a number-one bestseller on four separate Amazon sites: America, the UK, Canada, and Australia. Although it's true to say that he mainly concentrates on what he knows most about; murders laced by the mystery involving spies, his diverse experience of life shows in the two novellas he wrote, namely: Why? A Complicated Love, and the intriguing story titled--The Story That Had No Beginning. He is the recipient of rave reviews from a prestigious Manhattan publication and described as—the new Graham Green—by a highly placed employee of Waterstones Books, for whom he did a countrywide tour of book signing events. He has also appeared on 'live' television in the UK publicising his first novel. There is no morality to be found in evil. But to recognise that which is truly evil one must forget the rules of morality. Amazon Author Page https://www.amazon.co.uk/Daniel-Kemp/... He is fond of writing Quotes and a collection of his can be found here--- https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/list/72612151
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Daniel Kemp 
Riveting and sad photos, Danny. “Freedom is never free”. Well done.
Welcome back 🙂
Touching photos, Danny. I think it is impossible for those of us who did not experience the blitz and the years afterward, to understand how it changed lives.
The house that my maternal grandfather had bought was bombed early in the war, but the bomb never exploded. I was told by my mother that her brother’s son carried that bomb to the nearest Air Warden’s Shelter and it was later removed from there. He, my cousin, was killed by a bomb later in the war and my mother who worked at a munitions factory was constantly under an air attack. After I was born we first lived in married army quarters in Woolwich. Around those barracks and the nearby docks were enough bomb craters and blown up houses for make-believe playgrounds with no regard to what happened before us kids got there to play!