The only visual evidence there is to remind us of that night, is the part of the Churchyard wall that was rebuilt of those unsightly Scarborough common bricks. This work had to be done because of a bomb, which was dropped in the field, at the side of the road, opposite the Church and School, in the autumn of 1944. This damaged the roof and windows of the Church and the cemetery wall; there was also damage to the roof of the School House.

The School itself had damage to the windows, roof and gable end; the old Manor House was also badly damaged, was later demolished and replaced with the existing property. That was just one of three high explosives that were dropped on the village that night.

The next one was at the bottom of the hill in the middle of the road, almost opposite Duncan and Jean Corner's bungalow, which was not there at that time. This damaged the Reading Room, which comprised of two rooms, one was a games room with a billiards table, and the other room was the reading room with over 700 books. The Reading Room was rented to the Temperance Society by Sir Godfrey Macdonald, who, with the money awarded for the bomb damage, bought the old Wesleyan Chapel and presented it to Village for the Village Hall.

The other property that suffered any amount of damage was Waterside House, you can see where the gable end has been rebuilt and where the roof was damaged. It was said at the time that the nearest person to come to any harm was a little lad in his cot, in Waterside House, called Geoffrey Chatterton.  I think he's still around.

The third bomb landed in the field behind the two cottages opposite the top of Water Lane, I believe all it did was to bring an Iron Age Stone Axe Head to the surface.

That night we were all in bed, and were woken up by the droning of aeroplanes; on looking out of the bedroom window, we could see the searchlights waving across the sky, and realised that the planes were German. Suddenly the sky lit up, and then three loud explosions were heard, which shook the Village. I leaped out of bed, got dressed and