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I was evacuated from Leyton London to Brentwood on the 1st of sept 1939. When the siren went on sept the 3rd it was a test , i was on a bike ride and dropped my bike and ran down the road screaming because i thought it was a big monster roaring and coming over the roof tops.

in the blitz we went down to the air raid shelter every night for 12 months. There was seven of us in an anderson shelter then the german aircraft dropped sea mines on parachutes. One night at 3 oclock in the morning we heard this rustling noise and we looked out the shelter door and there was a white envelope which made us think it was our last days on earth. It turned out to be a barage balloon that had broken loose. It rose in the air and took all the slates and chimney pots with it. I was evacuated again to rhubina near cardiff for 18 months and returned again in time for the flying bombs. We were in the shelter when a flying bomb came straight to our house the noise was such that i was trying to push myself to austrailia through the floor. The engine did'nt stop and it veered left and hit leyton garage which was about 200 yards from us. The wooden shelter door disintegrated and came in all over us. We climbed out and there was lots of smoke and people screaming, my dad went out into the street and there was a man lying dead in the street with his clothes on fire, we wern't aloud to see things like that.

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