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When the bombs dropped on Joan Street, I was nearly 4 years old. On talking about that day my family have said that one of the family must have told me what had happened, because I was too young. No. I can remember we had a big window in the front room, and in the window an xmas tree. What happened next was over in seconds, the window was blown out, and I was under the bed, my mother was in the bed at the time where we lived was about ½ of a mile away from where the bombs were dropped — the High Street.

Years later when I came home from work, and told my father about a fella I was working with is named Bill Frost. Dad told me when bill was in the war all of his family as killed in the bombing of John Street.

Casualties of the bombing…
Margaret Frost. A. 50
Alice Frost. Dilaw. 30
Gordon W. Frost. 8
Mr. Rosa Smallman. 38
Stephen. E. Smallman. 8.
Wife and Son of Mr J Smallman from Essex.
Mr. Ann Webb. A. 31
Dorothy Webb. A. 44
George Bartels. A. 15 from West Ham
Mr. Ann Platt. A. 50
Mary Platt. A. 15
Galdys Boston. A. 23
James Boston. Father
James Junior

Other Casualties in North-Staffordshire
John Stobart. A. 4. died. 26/6/1940. Essex.
Trevor Baines. A. 8 16/1/1941. Basford.
Ann Brown. A. 67 29/11/1940. Hanley.
Charles Cartlidge. A. 44 16/1/1941. Basford.
Margaret Cartlidge. A. 39 16/01/1941. Basford.
Adela Leightton. A. 52 29/11/1940. Keele.
Mary Robertson. A. 22 2/6/1941. May Bank.
Arther Eardlety. A. 63 1/3/1943. APR Post from Burslem

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