Letter to the Editor....

Dear Martin

Well you are probably wondering why I have emailed you from New Zealand.

First I was born in Keswick Road before the second world war and left with my family (Atkinson's) in 1946. I went to school where I was taught by a Mrs Shipley.

I was very interested in the Bookham Common article published by your Bulletin winter 08. Is this the common I would have been on when as a child a doodle bug nearly killed us?  I am alive to-day because God intervened and the doodle bug blew up above our heads with all the debris falling around us in a circle and my mother, sister, brother and myself completely unharmed in any way. As I remember it blew out all the windows in the village.

Is the Oasis Bookham  Baptist Church the Baptist Church we would have attended in the 30s?  

Look forward to hearing from you - kind regards

(Mrs) J Porteous (née Jeanette Atkinson)

(Have you any information I could send to Jeanette Porteous in New Zealand? - editor (01372 453717 or email martin_warwick@hotmail.com ?)