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- Norfolk Adult Education Service
- People in story:听
- Raymond Graver
- Location of story:听
- Norwich, Norfolk
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A3334943
- Contributed on:听
- 27 November 2004
This story was submitted to the People鈥檚 War site by Sarah Housden of Norfolk Adult Education鈥檚 reminiscence team on behalf of Raymond Graver and has been added to the site with his permission. The author fully understands the site鈥檚 terms and conditions.
I was born in 1930, so I was nine when the war started. I was living in Norwich, where I have lived all my life, by Bowers Avenue. I remember coming out of the house to go to the air raid shelter and seeing a German plane. We could clearly see the pilot. It dropped a bomb in the field at the back of us but it didn鈥檛 go off.
It finished up with us living down the air raid shelter for a while, as we had to go back and forth to the house all night otherwise.
I attended Colman Road Special School and I should have left school when I was 15. But they let me leave early because I was going to work for my father.
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