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I remember one night in May when I was living in Hale Rd. We got a direct hit behind our house on the railway line at he back of Thompsons funeral parlour.

I was only about 11 and we had to spend the night in the cellar. We sat all night listening to the bombs dropping.

A Mr Wolfenden, who ownws a pawn shop on County Rd was our ARP warden and he would check on us at regular intervals. When it was all clear we saw a sceen of complete devastation. Index and Arnot Streets had been completly flattened.

When we came up from the cellar we tried to get some of our cloths. All of the back windows had been blown in and most of our furntiure was damaged, so we had very little left.

There was debris everwhere we even found a letter addressed to 7 Index St in our back graden and we lived in Hale Rd. We had to grab what we could and make our way to Hornby Rd station. I was wearing a coat that was 4 sizes to big for me. Eventually we managed to get a train to Manchester and we stayed with an aunt for a while.

Also, we were machine gunned in broad daylight on a Saturday afternoon. There are still bullet holes in the walls of the County Rd pub

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