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Every evening my Grandmother 鈥楯inny鈥� Thomas (my mother鈥檚 mother) went to get my Grandfather a jug of beer to have with his supper from their local off license in Franchise Street Kidderminster.

The blackout had recently started and everywhere was in total darkness as were only in the third week of the war.

She lived in a terrace and at the end of the covered entry between her house and next door there was a big step.

Although she had stepped up it thousands of times before, in the dark she missed her footing and fell breaking her hip.

Although she was taken to, and treated in hospital she died three weeks later. She was only 67. After her death there was a post-mortem and my grandfather always said that the hospital was negligent.

She was recorded in the local paper as 鈥淓lderly Lady in Franchise Street 1st Fatality of the Blackout鈥�.

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