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This story has been submitted to the People’s War website by Anne Wareing of the Lancashire Home Guard on behalf of Mrs. A. Emery and has been added to the site with her permission…

I have many memories of the war but one in particular sticks in my mind.

This particular day my husband was work at the Rolls Royce factory in Crewe; the factory being an obvious target for the German bombers.

On the same day my friend and I were walking along this road in Crewe pushing our prams when suddenly we heard the sound of a German plane. You couldn’t mistake the sound of them. We looked up and there it was, directly above us, barely above the chimney tops, I could quite clearly read the number on the side of it. Somehow he had managed to avoid the guns and the huge barrage balloons, which were meant to prevent the planes from flying low down. We were terrified he would fire at us, but he flew away and then came the bombs, the ground trembled; we could feel the blast through the soles of our shoes. They had hit the Rolls Royce factory.

As I said my husband was at work that day and I was afraid that something might had happened to him as it was several nail biting hours before he came home, thankfully unharmed. But it is a day I will never forget.

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