In article , Howard
Berkowitz writes
In article , "Keith Willshaw"
wrote:

"Greg Hennessy" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 20:48:53 +0100, "Keith Willshaw"
wrote:



For the cabinet war rooms no, for Northwood nuclear weapons
were certainly a consideration

One must assume that the other side would have made an awful mess of NW
london just to knock out Northwood.



That assumption was fair I suspect, I never thought
the Soviets would take us off the target list cause
Brent Council declared us a nuclear free zone


*sigh* should they, then, have built Northwood in Slough?

I assume you are thinking of:

'Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough,
It isn't fit for humans now,
There isn't grass to graze a cow,
Swarm over, Death!'

Post-war, Slough council did invite Betjeman to visit - to witness that
things had been improved. He declined...

Cheers,

Dave

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Dave Eadsforth