My parents were married in 1939 and bought a new bungalow on the Laings Estate at 3, Silverdale, near Boxer's Lake at the western end of Enfield (nearer to Oakwood Tube Station than to Enfield Chase and Enfield Town). I was born in 1940, but the bungalow and adjoining properties were badly damaged by a stray German bomb later that year (I believe it was one of two that fell on the new estate that night, perhaps a jettison or the crew mistaking reflections off the lake for one of the Lea Valley reservoirs near Ponders End). Fortunately there were no casualties from our bomb, but it fell where an outdoor bomb shelter was due to be installed, so there might have been a fatal outcome if the incident had occurred only a few days later. We were displaced until the late 1940s when the bungalow was rebuilt under the War Damage scheme.
I would love to find a newspaper reference to the bombing incident so as to find out the actual date and read about the wider picture if any.
David Smyth
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My parents were married in 1939 and bought a new bungalow on the Laings Estate at 3, Silverdale, near Boxer's Lake at the western end of Enfield (nearer to Oakwood Tube Station than to Enfield Chase and Enfield Town). I was born in 1940, but the bungalow and adjoining properties were badly damaged by a stray German bomb later that year (I believe it was one of two that fell on the new estate that night, perhaps a jettison or the crew mistaking reflections off the lake for one of the Lea Valley reservoirs near Ponders End). Fortunately there were no casualties from our bomb, but it fell where an outdoor bomb shelter was due to be installed, so there might have been a fatal outcome if the incident had occurred only a few days later. We were displaced until the late 1940s when the bungalow was rebuilt under the War Damage scheme.
I would love to find a newspaper reference to the bombing incident so as to find out the actual date and read about the wider picture if any.
David Smyth