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Wenesday night - Epsom was bombed, the other side of the town to us, 4 houses were knocked down, three people killed.
Thursday night - at 8 pm, some bombs were dropped about 440 yds away from us, one or two houses down, several people killed. At 11-10 p.m. two bombs dropped very near, as we were nearly all asleep under the stairs. I heard it coming down and thought it would land on us, but we heard a terrific explosion with the noise, debris or a house falling down, and glass falling about;
people yelling as well. Father and Mr Jordan ran out in their dressing-gowns, (Mr Jordan in his stocking feet.) to see what had happened, I wanted to go as well but mother wouldn鈥檛 let me as the Jerry planes were over head. When Father and Mr Jordan returned they told us about it-: Father said he went running up the road, over earth and stones, nearly tripping over the tele-phone wires, to get to the house as someone was calling for help. Then he went round the back of the house to find the crater, found it, (he had a warden with him). The warden shone his torch down it - both thought it very deep, but could not tell how much. Father then returned home. Mr Jordan went out after father - he had a rough journey up there in his stocking feet and he arrived up there after father. He took the old lady of the house from the warden and passed her on to a second warden, as she was badly shaken. The old gentleman came out of the house with his silk top hat on, he had been in bed when it fell. Mr Jordan then returned home.
Next morning, I got up early to see the damage. We had about five holes in our roof, only small ones though and I was allowed to see the crater. It was about 16ft-20ft deep, the house was still standing and it had done about 拢100 damage, but out of the 25 houses in Bridge Road, 7 of them were without any bomb damage. The Road had been filled with earth and stones, also a few telephone wires about. We had the road closed and men to scrape it clean. (0n on top of the house was an apple tree.) We had earth on our loft window sill, and chunks of it in front and back garden. The house that was bombed was opposite side to us, (number 2), and the crater was about 30 yds away from us.
The funny part about it was that our ceiling fell down at 9 am the next morning after the raid - that gave us more of a shock than the bomb did - the ceiling fell down on the top landing.

There was a good few more bombs dropped in Epsom that night which also did at lot of damage.
dropped in Epsom that night.

On the Saturday, I was going out shopping for myself, and as I had got half way down the road, I heard a plane coming over and naturally I turned to look at it. To my astonishment it was a Jerry, it was very low, down below the rain clouds that were also very low. We had no gunfire until after it had dropped 5 bombs (father saw these five bombs leave the plane) then, I think they brought the plane down. It was a Dornier as I looked it up in our book at home and found it by the long pencil shape body.

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