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15 October 2014
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One or Two Memories of the War

by Barnsley Archives and Local Studies

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Barnsley Archives and Local Studies
People in story:听
J S Thornton
Location of story:听
Wombwell, Yorkshire
Background to story:听
Civilian
Article ID:听
A3862226
Contributed on:听
05 April 2005

"This story was submitted to the People's War site by the Barnsley Archives and Local Studies Department on behalf of J S Thornton and has been added to the site with his/her permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions."
I can remember the Sheffield Blitz. We weren鈥檛 allocated a shelter as we had a cellar.

I had four sisters and my mam had us sitting in a line on the settee as my dad didn鈥檛 think the cellar was suitable.

This night the brass sneck on the door was rattling as the planes went over. My sister shouted the Germans have dropped a bomb on our sneck.

I went to King鈥檚 Road School and there was a shelter in the schoolyard. We had to practice walking in line down into the shelter and sitting on duckboards with our gas masks on. The shelter wasn鈥檛 used very much.

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