About the contributor

I was a teenager living in Lincolnshire during the Second World War.
My father was medical officer for North Kesteven. As such he made himself responsible in the late thirties for replacing artesian wells with clean water pumping stations.
However the job also involved being Civil Defence Officer for Waddington which was an important station for aircraft of the allied air forces.
I have an interesting sory to tell about the time when two parachute mines fell on Waddington.