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My mum worked in Everton clinic, which was set up as a first aid post. The building was split into two parts; they used to put their lunches in the dumbwaiter in the war, which acted like a cupboard. One day an incendiary bomb dropped in the other half of the building after the fire was put out and all the wounded had been dealt with my mother remembered her lunch. They went to the dumbwaiter and opened the door and their lunch was cooked and ready to eat.

A bomb had dropped and glass was everywhere very large lady, came staggering in, with a piece a glass stuck through her nose. As it wasn鈥檛 bleeding or hurt in another way she had to wait and every time my mum walked passed her the nose was swelling and getting bigger and bigger. The woman kept trying to see what was in her nose, as she didn鈥檛 know. About lunch tome she was seen and she found that she couldn鈥檛 unsquint her eyes as she was like that for a long time.

She also worked in Vauxhall Road, she used to have to fire watch. One early evening at the height of the blitz she was getting ready to go on duty, she had to go outside the building to get to where she was going. As she was walking almond she saw a key, like a church door key which was about a foot long, as she bent to pick it up a burning beam fell right were she would of stepped if she hadn鈥檛 bent down to pick the key up. The key saved her life.

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