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This story was told to me by Tilly Silverman at the Birmingham Back to Backs and has been added to the site with her permission.

"One particular night we lost our home. We were sheltering and my husband was on ARP duty and I was in a shelter in a factory. A neighbour came in and said 'Tilly I think your house has had it'. When I went to look the whole front of the house had been sliced off. This was on Clevedon Road, Balsall Heath. Trams ran along this road, and as we stood looking at the house, we saw a great hole in the road that would have been dangerous for the trams. So my husband covered it with a plank of wood. Ten minutes later an unexploded bomb went off in that hole.

We went to live with my mother and father, and later got a house to live near our old home. I only managed to rescue one piece of furtniture from the whole house.

My first daughter was born in 1942 and I remember crawling into the Morrison shelter when I was very pregnant.

I remember the night the BSA factory was bombed. Many people were buried under the factory,and that part of it was never opened again. My husband was working there that night but he had got into the shelter. But he was late back home and I did not know waht had happened to him. When he told me he had been waiting for his wages I was so angry with him!

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