Location for London Blitz

I can remember the 'buzz' that went around the local community when a huge film crew landed on some streets of old houses off Wells Way in Camberwell (south east London) to film the Blitz sequence for 'Battle of Britain'. It must have been shot in 1968 and I would have been ten-years-old. Lots of council estate kids (including me)from the local area went to have a look, and I can remember seeing huge lights being set up, barrage balloons in the air, and all the paraphanalia of a film set. No stars, though, but it was exciting all the same. As it began to get dark, no filming had started, so we made our way home. But that night my Dad told us he watched from his bedroom window the sky light up in the direction of Wells Way, and the sight of the search lights and barrage ballons freaked him out. The film crew had set light to the houses, too. As a boy in the war Dad had been buried alive in his house when a doodle bug hit his street. This was the Blitz sequence in 'Battle of Britain' and when it was shown in our local cinema, Peckham Odeon, we recognised the background, when Sgt Pilot Andy (Ian MacShane) tries to find his family.