Island Life Magazine Ltd December 2009/January 2010 | Page 35
INTERVIEW
rebuilding those hotels. It seems the ruse worked.
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more bombing in Cowes, moved to an old manor house near
Shorwell. One day, as the little girl was playing in the garden,
“Cowes night”
a plane flew over. For shelter she ran into the manor’s very
The air raid on Cowes was devastating, hundreds
substantial stone porch, which then received a direct hit, killing
being made homeless and many killed. In such a
both the child and her mother.
confined area it probably compared in intensity
Another random bomb killed my doctor. Old Dr S G&F