Letters: Readers are moved by Jonathan Freedland’s account of his grandmother’s death in a rocket attack on London towards the end of the second world war
There cannot be many of us left who were there on that fateful day when the last V2 rocket to land on London destroyed Hughes Mansions on Vallance Road, killing 134 people, including Jonathan Freedland’s grandmother . I lived with my parents in a council flat some 100 yards from Vallance Road – it was 8 o’clock in the morning and I was getting ready for school. The explosion was a horrendous shock; I was just 13 and had been through most of the blitz.
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