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On the other side of the road from where I lived, an elderly couple lived in a semi-detached house, next door to the school. Their Son on his way home from work every evening would take his parents down the garden to their air-raid shelter. On one particular evening he failed to arrive, Mr Mills who lived further up the road saw them waiting at the gate, stopped to tell them their Son had been asked to stay behind on firewatch duty at the factory. Mr Mills suggested he take them into the air-raid shelter, which was the other side of the boundry wall between their house and the school. That night a bomb dropped between the corner of their house and their Anderson shelter, it blew the shelter onto the school roof and the rear of the house fell into a large crater. On the other side of the wall, those in the school shelter were unharmed, but slightly stunned. Miracles do happen even during the war.

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