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It was 1942 when Coventry was bombed and the remaining 3 bombs were used on Reading. On this particular day I was working at a shop called Wellstein鈥檚 at the time as a Secretary Assistant. On a Wednesday I would normally work till 1pm then go home. On this day a bomb was dropped at 1.30pm on my office so I had just missed it. I was only 14 at the time and was very upset because my office had gone.
At the same time, my father was by the People鈥檚 Pantry in Friar Street and the bomb was dropped on there, just missing my father. Also that day, at the same time my mother was in Cheapside where the theatre was and another bomb was dropped in that area, just missing her. To think that on the same day we could have all been hurt and this all happened within 10 minutes of each other.

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