- Contributed by听
- Plymouth Libraries
- People in story:听
- Viola Woodward, Ivon Woodward, Mr Earnest Brock
- Location of story:听
- Plymouth, Devon
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A6815810
- Contributed on:听
- 09 November 2005
Ths story was submitted to the People's war website by Plymouth Library Services on behalf of Viola Woodward. The author fully understands the terms and conditions' of the website.
In 1942 I lived in Elburton Street, Plymouth with my husband Ivon and son Malcolm. My husband and I were fire watchers, when the bombs hit we had to make sure everyone was safe.
One day the church down the road was hit and our house got the fallout. We had to move so we got a sheet and put clocks and things we needed for a short time and went to Regent Street to my husbands sisters and left our belongings there.
We then went to my mothers who lived in a block of flats in West Hill Road, Mutley. She had a Morrison shelter in her spare room which was made of steel. My stepfather had only one leg so he spent most of the time in it, my son Malcolm slept there as well.
Two rooms became vacant, the couple moved to cornwall, so we took over the rooms, we got a wheelbarrow and picked up what was left in our old house and from the sheet.
We stayed in the flat until we could get a place with no stairs, while we were there we got a leak in the water pipe and the landlord Mr Brock fixed it by melting candle wax on it.
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