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This story was submitted to the People's War site by Lin Freeman of Radio Derby CSV on behalf of Mrs H.Ward and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.

I was at St Peters Street School in Devonshire Street and there was an air raid going on, and we all went down into the school cellars. My family wanted me with them so my father came from home and picked me up and carried me back home during the air raid. I could hear the aircraft and the 'whizz bombs'. It was probably when they bombed Royces and I was only about 7 years old.
My mother was waiting at home and we went into our own air raid shelter until the All Clear sounded.

My father worked at The Hippodrome in Derby as a doorman, and one morning he heard a bomb falling and the pieces of shrapnel coming down. A young nurse was walking by so my father fell on top of her, then a policeman fell on top of him. When they stood up the shrapnel was lying next to where their heads had been. That was what you call a 'near miss'!

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