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The planes used to wake me up in the middle of the night coming back with spluttering engines and counting them. One night I woke up and saw the silhouette of my mother and sister against a red-orange sky. One of our planes had crashed on the teacher鈥檚 house on Greestone Stairs and they were looking at it through the window.

I remember the light double summertime evenings looking from our landing window at the planes going off on the 1000 bomber raids. I remember the 9 o clock news on the wireless when we daren鈥檛 utter a word while our parents listened to the news of the bombing of our cities. The Germans were going to bomb the Cathedral cities and ours, we thought after Coventry, would be next. But it wasn鈥檛, probably because the 4 red lights on top of the central tower was a navigational aid position for the German planes as well as the British.

The Home Guard used to practise on the allotments where Bruce Rd now is. I climbed over our back wall, jumped down and landed in the middle of a group!

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