Large and treeless

People who read this tale, and who know the area, will wonder how we were able to get such a uninterrupted view of what was going on.

This was effectively where our back garden was,  there were few trees to obstruct our view.  It is totally different now, with hundreds of houses and lots of trees and shrubs.

This was our back garden of ½ an acre;  from it one looked out eastwards towards a line of distant trees.  It was over those trees that a huge formation of enemy bombers appeared, flying low.

The two large houses (Dippers and Copperfield) on the horizon no longer exist.  It has all been intensively built upon.