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COMPLETED"Done Our Bit" club Kilburn
« on: Wednesday 04 February 09 03:09 GMT (UK) »
I googled 'Done our bit' club and note that it is still alive in Kilburn.
It was well patronised during WW2 and I,as a young musician, had the good fortune of playing there in 1943/44 and made a lot of good friends there.
Is anybody associated with this grand old club who can remember that far back?
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Re: "Done Our Bit" club Kilburn
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 04 March 09 20:49 GMT (UK) »
I remember it well as I held my wedding reception there on Saturday 1st August 1959.
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Re: "Done Our Bit" club Kilburn
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 04 March 09 23:53 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for responding 'M' ........ that old club was one of the very few social clubs that kept going in WW2 and I liked it very much.
I had a very close friend who was a rear gunner in a Lancaster who intended to marry a girl who also attended the club.
Unfortunately his plane was shot down over Freidrichshaven about a week or so before the event and he was lost.
I shall never forget the great reverence displayed by all members at that time.
Joe
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Re: COMPLETED"Done Our Bit" club Kilburn
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 30 July 17 13:00 BST (UK) »
There was an Air Raid Warden's post in the DOB during the war and I was a messenger for them.  Most likely saved me as I was very heavily dressed because it was mid winter ready to go on duty when the V2 struck Iverson Rd.  Had my football socks on that saved my feet a bit although they got badly scalded and broken by the cooker and coats and jumpers reduced the impact of glass etc in my back.
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