And for some reason, it reminds me of my youth. I grew up in a small town just outside London, and every Tuesday morning a WW2 air raid siren would go off, waking me from my slumber/hangover.

Air-raid siren sounds the warning. Air-raid sirens first sounded the warning in London in September 1939. They became an almost daily part of life in the capital a year later during the height of ...

AIR-RAID SIREN ISABEL: Sometimes when Grandad was at ... under an ironing board and it saved his life. Alan lived in north London during World War Two and was in his home when the neighbour's ...