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This story was submitted to the People's War site by Gillian Ridley for Three Counties Action on behalf of Daphne Farr and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully inderstands the site's terms and conditions.

I worked in the Co-op in Bury Park, Luton during my teens. It was October 1944 at about ten in the morning. We had just weighed the bread; we had to do that as it came in due to rationing, and had filled the window with bread and cakes when a rocket came down.
The blast blew out the windows. All the cakes and bread had to be thrown out along with 7lb jars of sweets and all the friut and vegatables due to glass splinters.
A friend of mine who worked in the wages office at Commers (the factory that was hit) was hit in the face by the blast and two years later was still finding splinters of glass coming out of her face, luckily she wasn't badly scarred.
And Doctors house in Leagrave Road had a light bulb blown out of it's socket near the front door of the house, it was blown down the hallway right through to the back if the house, when checked the light bulb seemed ok it was replaced in it's socket and still worked.

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