- Contributed by听
- oxcloseschool
- People in story:听
- John Mitchell
- Location of story:听
- Sunderland
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A4250729
- Contributed on:听
- 23 June 2005
It was someones birthday and my mother wanted to make a cake and we needed some eggs. Due to food rationing we were only allowed one egg, which I went down to the loacl shop to buy. On the way home, I thought it would be a shorter route to climb over a fence... Unfortunatly I broke the egg. My mother said right you'll have to go to your grandma's at Grangetown and ask her for some eggs as she owned chickens. When I got to her house I found that a bomb had fallen during the night, and there was a large crater in the middle of the road. The men who were cleaning up the mess asked all us kids to help fill the hole by throwing bricks and rubble in. Then I went to my grandma's house and found that a paving stone had been blow through the roof, through the bedroom ceiling and had landed on the bed. My bed! Which I had used to sleep in when I stayed at that house! Anyway my Grandma took me to the hen house and gave me a bag of eggs to give to my mother. This time I didn't take a shortcut and delivered the eggs SAFELY home!
P.S. If anyone dug up that street, they would find bricks in the road!
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