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This account was related to Denis Price of The 大象传媒 People's War Team, the 大象传媒 Open Centre, Hull, by Rita Wheldon.

Not without good cause in Hull in 1941, we felt we were being targeted as a family by Hitler's Luftwaffe. After being bombed out of three homes we felt the war was becoming too close for comfort.
Our first house in Rokeby Park was demolished around us by a landmine. As occupants we heard nothing, only witnessing the destruction of our home around us. There were eight of us in the house, my brother suffered a broken leg and Grandmother was taken to hospital with a fractured hip and shoulder, the rest of us had cuts and bruises.
We were fortunate in having very strong and resolute parents who helped us all to cope. I recall as we all stood shocked in the rubble of our home, my Father being asked by my Mother to rescue her false teeth from what was left of the upstairs bathroom cabinet.
Our next move was to Grandmother's house in the Boulevard. In the first real blitz a bomb fell at the back of the house doing considerable damage from which we all escaped unscathed. My brother, who's leg was still in plaster from the first incident had to be carried out by me from the second one. I was fifteen and he was thirteen.
From the Boulevard and now being homeless, we walked to Anlaby where we stayed with friends of my Father's. Within a few days we had to evacuate this house because of an unexploded bomb in the garden. Mother wouldn't allow us to be demoralized at this time and and we heard of a house where Father , as a solicitor, was doing the conveyancing. He persuaded his clients to vacate the property early to allow us to move in. At first all of us were in one room but eventually this house in Lowfield Road Anlaby became our final move.

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