Wednesday September 10 9.20 pm [1941]
# RON DESCRIBES LIVE BOMB INCIDENT ON AIRFIELD
# INSPIRATION FOR ‘CASUALTIES WERE SMALL’ POEM
# SEVERAL BOMBS DROPPED LOCALLY

Wendy Hiller acted the part of Eliza Doolittle in the 1938 film version of ‘Pygmalion’, based on the ‘modern’ play version written by George Bernard Shaw who cast her in the role. WS Gilbert’s much earlier comedy play ‘Pygmalion and Galatea’ was based on characters of Greek mythology.

Mrs Robb lived on Skegness Road, near Cradle Bridge, on the same side as the Vicarage. The field was known as ‘Three Acre Meadow’.  See village map.

Reads’ field was behind Mrs Robb’s and ‘Three Acre Meadow’, closer to the village.

Frank Simpson, here (NOT May’s brother), refers to an unrelated farmer, on Stones Lane, beyond upper Wigg Lane in the direction of Hogsthorpe.

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