- Contributed by听
- CSV Action Desk/大象传媒 Radio Lincolnshire
- People in story:听
- Sylvia Elliott (nee Betesta), grandma Tipping, sister Vera (WAFFS)
- Location of story:听
- Derby, evacuated to Stanley Common
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A4399031
- Contributed on:听
- 08 July 2005
I was six years old and living in Derby when war broke out. Because we lived between Rolls Royce and British Rail, we were evacuated. I hated it. I thought my mum was giving me away. There were bullies in those days. The other children took a delight in frightening me. When I finally came home the bombs were very bad in Derby, the Germans were after Rolls Royce.
When the sirens went my grandmother would make us a cup of cocoa and we would sit on the cellar steps under the stairs. One night when my sister Vera was home on leave from the WAFFS, she said she wasn鈥檛 going to get up if there was an air raid. Well there was and there was a terrific bang and the tin bath which was hanging on the wall fell off with a crash. Then we heard another bang and it was my sister falling out of bed and down the stairs.
The next day when we got out to look there were three houses completely gone, this was just about six houses away from us. My older brother was at Sykes home in Skegness in the war.
I have lived in Chapel St. Leonards for 13 years and love it
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