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Shelters were dug and covered with corrugated iron. They were very cold and damp, it was horrible, when you heard the sirens go and had to get out of your nice warm bed and go down the garden.
All that was inside was wooden seats. We took blankets, cushions and if we had time a flask of tea. Anyway when it was dark and we heard the sirens we rushed and scrambled down to the shelter.

This one time when we were staying with my uncle the new buzz bombs were coming. When we had decided which shelter to go into (he had one in the kitchen and one down the garden) we sprinted in the dark to get down to the garden shelter.

After waiting for a couple of minutes we poked our heads out and saw one. When the light for the motor went out — it was landing. To our horror the light went out and we tumbled back into the shelter, and waited a horrible few 10 seconds, for it to land. It made a whistling sound and then crashed into a row of houses a few feet from us. All the people in those houses were ruined.

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