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My mother used to get us up when the airraid siren went. She used to carry 2 children down the stairs and I used to walk behind, 1 child in front and 1 on her back. There was no shelter so we went into the kitchen and we had to sit here and wait...and wait ... and wait! We could hear the dogfights going on above us. This carried on for a few years.

At the top of the yard we used to have an old ash shelter where everyone used to put ashes and as time went on we decided to make a bit of a shelter for ourselves. It had a bit of a bed for us kids to sit on and for curtains we had old sacks! When the all clear went we all went back to bed.

Where we were we could see when they bombed Nuneaton and it was so bright that it lit our newspaper up!

one night a whistling bomb came down and it landed in the stream at Merevale park. It never went off!

A I grew older I eventually ended up working in the hat factory and I was there until the end of the war.

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