Midhurst Memoirs Vol 3 Lowest Times
Peter Sydenham
Three-and-a-half-year-old Peter Sydenham was evacuated to Midhurst after his road in London had been bombed during the blitz in late 1940.
At first, Peter lived without his mother in a room in the St Ann’s Hill building, but when Sheep Lane was hit by a bomb in 1943, he was forced to move to Easebourne and then to Red Lion Street before moving back to London when the war was over.
Lowest Times is the eagerly awaited third volume of Peter Sydenham’s memoirs, following on from the enjoyable A Place Close to my Home and Nazis Storm Clouds.
Peter provides a history of the War during the early 1940s at a time when Britons were beginning to realise that Nazi Germany could actually invade them. Britain had hastened onto a war footing; asking Canada for caretaker troops, evacuating children from bombing targets, setting up personal air raid protections, introducing rationing and creating a new Home Guard.
Lowest Times describes the events that are taking place within the Country and beyond alongside a narrative of his experiences living in Midhurst.
Lowest Times is available from the Midhurst Museum for £15