Bobert, sounds wonderful that you have those letters, do find a way of saving them for your family, it is taking me many hours to type mothers letters onto my laptop, but I can now share them with my family. Some of my cousins remember the events and I now have a clear picture of the "two up and two down" cottage that was hit by the V1 rocket as two of the cousins remember it. The bedrooms upstairs had no gas or electricity so candles lit them to bed!! They have described the scullery with a huge copper boiler, the outside " loo" and Grandad sitting by the range in the kitchen in a Captains chair with a blanket over him and a quart pot of brown ale warming by the fire!
He had a great sense of humour and if the grandchildren made too much noise in the front parlour would stick his head round the door and threaten them with" I'll send for old Ted!) No one ever found out who old Ted was!!
Mum ,in her letters says she is a worrier, somethings dont change, she woke me up at 2 in the morning last night asking me to ring the police, something was very wrong! Took me an hour to get her back to bed! Bless!!
Wendy