- Contributed by听
- CSV Action Desk Leicester
- People in story:听
- Anthony Byrne Dakin
- Location of story:听
- Leicester
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A4456433
- Contributed on:听
- 14 July 2005
I passed the 11 plus and went to Wiggeston School. I got there by travelling on the tram across Leicester and then walking to University Road.
A gang of us used to walk to Bradgate Park or Swithland Woods from Belgrave in Leicester with bottles of water and sandwiches.
I could see Coventry being bombed - the lights in the sky.
I remember a land mine being dropped just off Abbey Lane which damaged houses in that area.
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