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This contribution is taken from the archives of the McLean Museum, Greenock, part of Inverclyde Council

Mary Doherty nee Gillen

And my sister and I, we ran up into the house and there was an incendiary bomb blazing like mad in the middle of the couch. And she got the coal shovel and I got a basin and we lifted it into this basin and chucked it out of the window. So that saved the house going on fire and oh yes — the curtains went on fire as well. We pulled them down and that saved the whole building going on fire

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