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I was eleven years old when Coventry was blitzed.
I was evacuated to Corley summer 1940, a few miles from home (Coventry). I was staying at an open air school there, as I had chest problems. From the school I witnessed the bombing of Coventry on the 14/15th November 1940. It was very exciting to see from a distance- it looked like a huge ball of fire. On the weekend following the raid my father came to take me home, on the way there he told me that our house had been burnt to the ground (34, King Richard Street). I was told that my father and brother were in the house when it received what we believe was a basket of incendieries had set the whole house alight. My father and brother were the cellar and when they opened the door to the hall the whole area was in flames, they knew they had to run out the house, and go to Gosford Green Park shelters to tell the rest of the family. when I saw the damaged house I felt lost. My mother, father, brothers and sisters plus myselt lived in cellars and shelters and houses, until we managed to acquire a roofless house (41, Wren Street). At 41, Wren Street we slept downstairs under the beds. In April 1941 the house next door was severely damaged (as a result of the bombing of the football ground), and our party wall was badly damaged. Our home was unsafe to live in, so we had to move yet again. We now moved back to King Richard Street number 33-we were now living opposite our old home.

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