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As a boy my Dad lived in Tupton, number 39 Ward Street until he moved. One night there were aeroplanes from Germany that had come to bomb Hardwick paratroopers — all the lights were out at Hardwick though. The planes didn’t know where to drop the bombs, so they headed back to Germany but the bombs were too heavy so they had to get rid of them. They let them go in Tupton. The bombs destroyed about five houses in a row. The houses where in Ward Street and one of the homes they hit was my Dads, Clifford Pugh, luckily he didn’t live there at the time.

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