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My parents Tom and Louisa lived on the Gorsey Bank Estate in Cheadle Heath, with their two young children, Maureen and Tom.
I believe it was in October 1940. My father was not called to the Army as he'd had a bad fall while working and was not fit.
The children were in bed and my parents had secured the blackouts when they saw lights in the sky on the other side of the River Mersey that ran along the back of the estate.
My mother and father stood at the back door in the dark watching what looked like fire-works and their first thoughts were that the war was over. They then heard a whistling noise just before their world seemed to fall around them.
My mother was thrown into the back garden by the blast and the back door came off its hinges and covered my father, saving him from the falling rubble.
They were both hurt and eventually treated at the Stockport Infirmary. My brother and sister were rescued from the corner of the bedroom that was still standing. They were re-housed in Ford Street where I was born in 1944, and moved back into the same house when it was re-built after the war.
I have seen a photograph of a crater from a bomb that was dropped on Gorsey Bank Park, and I think it must have been the same night.
I was told this was the first Air-raid on Stockport, but there seems to be no record of it and I am told it is because noone was killed.

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