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I was about 7yrs old at the beginning of the war and I lived in Portland Walk, Diglis, Worcester. There were a lot of allotments near us. There were some council houses as well. We lived in number 14. On the right were Mr and Mrs Knot and on the left, Mr and Mrs Harding and family. Mr Knot had his garden and a piece of ground that we all called 'The Tins'. Mr Harding was, I think, a Captain in the Home Guards. He was the one that got us all together and herded the neighbours into building a big shelter under 'The Tins'.

The hole was quite a big size, covered in timber and then turf. We had candles and benches and blankets. When the sirens went we all used to charge over. We were only about 50 yards from the River Severn. We could tell which planes were German from the drone of their engines and Mr Harding had some night vision glasses and used to let us go up on top of the shelter and watch the planes follow the river up to Birmingham. We got used to the different planes and luckily we never had any bombs drop on us.

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