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Early in 1941 (January or February) the weather was bitterly cold and there was no business in the fish and poultry shop where I worked. I remember one Monday at about midday my manager said to me as I was going home to dinner "if I were you Miss, I'd take the books home and do them there". (It was the end of the month and the monthly accounts had to be made up.) When I got home my mother was getting up the dinner and she asked me if I would get a bucket of coal from the cellar. The dog came down with me and while I was filling the scuttle I could hear a plane circling around and I thought that it sounded like a `jerry` as they had a different tone. The dog shivered.

I came up the cellar stairs and our neighbours' daughter, Eileen Potter, ran round and asked "is there anyone here who can deal with incendiary bombs?" When I looked I could see little fires burning in our garden among the apple trees, so I said "let them burn". However, a lady about four houses up the road from us (Park Road) - a Mrs Foreman -had an incendiary through her roof and onto her bed. She was quite elderly but dealt with it herself.

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