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- culture_durham
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- Gladys Daynes
- Location of story:听
- Durham City, County Durham
- Article ID:听
- A7396536
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- 29 November 2005
Gladys Daynes
This story was submitted to the People's War Site by Durham Clayport Library on behalf of Gladys Daynes and has been added with her permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.
In 1939 my husband and I lived in a flat above what is now the Rock Shop near Elvet Bridge. The war started and my husband Reg got his call up papers to go to war, he said 鈥測ou cannot live in this flat on your own because they are going to mine the bridge as it may get blown up to stop the enemy getting into Durham. So we moved in with his sister in Church Street, Durham City. She had an air-raid shelter which we spent many a night in during the war. One night there was a very long air-raid, when the Germans came and tried to bomb the Cathedral, but down came a very thick mist all over Durham City. It stopped the German planes from bombing the city; they could not find their way. There was a German plane shot down in a field in nearby Carrville. We thought it was an act of God to send down the mist to save our Cathedral.
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