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We lived in Beaufort House in Tattershall, opposite Cornwall Terrace and what is now Royal Square. I think I was 4. The land mine dropped in the garden of Mr Sleight鈥檚 house. His wife and son died. Mum and grandma and I stayed in bed. The walls came down and an army personnel came and carried me to the Vicarage. The Royal Hotel was in ruins. I can remember bits all over and a charred smell. I was there all night. Mum and grandma had slight cuts. My Aunty had more. All her front windows had come out and the middle wall fell down. The clock on the wall fell beneath the table and still goes today. The painting saved my life. It fell on top of me in bed and protected me. When the siren went we took no notice being so close to Coningsby and RAF Woodhall.

Mum worked for Dr George Armour and his wife was badly injured and his house destroyed. We all went to live with him in his rented house since mum worked for him and we had nowhere else to go. It happened in July and we got home at Christmas.

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