On October 16, 1940, a Luftwaffe bomber dropped a one-tonne parachute landmine over North London, obliterating the street where little Charlie Beale and his family lived.
Charlie, six at the time, was buried alive, but survived the night-time bombing raid thanks to an extraordinary rescue which made a page two headline in the Mirror.
Eighty years on from the Blitz attack, Charlie, now 86, talks for the first time about being freed from the rubble of his Islington home after spending 14 hours trapped. “I can remember it like it was yesterday,” said Charlie, of Wickford, Essex. “It was 10 o’clock at night.
We’d gone into the coal shelter when the air raid warning sounded as my granddad told us it would be the safest place. “There was me, my
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