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My younger sister and I were quite used to the sirens by then, so we weren't too scared but mum...
On Sunday mornings I had the unpaid job of pumping the bellows for the Church Organ... I would have a rest...
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The barage balloons were set up to prevent the aircraft making low attacks on the Avonmouth docks......
One day I was standing in the doorway to a shop when shrapnel began pouring down out of the sky....
My Grandmother, Rachel Doris Newell was badly injured in the raids on Hull in May 1941. Another pencil...
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Name Joan Croker Interview Date 20th April 2005 Subjects covered Air Raid Shelter, Childhood, Evacuation...
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