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Boots are all important
We lived very near the Alvis plant in a big house. My mother took in lodgers 8 of whom were Irish and two were Scots. She also had three strapping sons. I was thirteen years old on this night which was the night of the Coventry blitz. A parachute mine (a very large bomb) was dropped on the Alvis plant. We were just sitting down to our meal when it blew up blowing off our house roof. Three of the Irishmen rushed out of the house never to be seen again. The rest of us were all lying flat on the ground frightened to death. One of the men was always very careful to take off his boots each night before he did anything else and he was lying next to me. With all hell going on round us he turned to me and said 鈥� Norman could you nip upstairs and see if my boots are alright and bring them down here.鈥�
We had no roof it had gone in the blast, the curtains were on fire and we were still being bombed with fires starting up all round us.
He pleaded with me 鈥淣orman just see if my boots are still there鈥�

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