Our WW2 Allotment and encounter with a Flying Bomb

In WW2 my parents had an allotment at Wormholt Park about 25 minutes walk from our flat at Emlyn Gardens. Mention of WW2 use on the Council web site
Wormholt Park: The First Hundred Years - H&F Libraries and Archives Blog

Just north across the railway was one of my future Schools. I sometimes walked this way to school.  
St Clement Danes Holborn Estate Grammar School

We grew vegatables and I loved shelling fresh peas.

Plus a crop of sweet peas.

The poles on which those kind of plants grew are in that photo of me and Dad. As well as running an ice cream factory he was also driving an ambulance for ARP Air Raid Precautions.  

One day in 1944 enjoying a day at the allotment there was suddenly the chug chug sound of a V-1_flying_bomb. 

The V-1 was the first of the Vergeltungswaffen (V-weapons) deployed for the terror bombing of London. 
It was up high flying north over my future school and vanished into the far distance. 
Very nasty feeling seeing it. I do not know what damage it caused.

The allotment was great.

V2 

Whilst I am talking about these awful weapons. 
The first V-2 rocket (German: Vergeltungswaffe 2, lit. 'Vengeance Weapon 2') to hit London came down about 2 miles from our flat killing 63-year-old Mrs. Ada Harrison, three-year-old Rosemary Clarke, and Sapper Bernard Browning on leave from the Royal Engineers

A V-2 I know more about on my webpage.
November 1944 Bomb Damage in Wandsworth - Hazlehurst Road Garratt Lane
I am very pleased that my posting of a memory from Hilda eventually became a major event in that part of London as you will see on the page.