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During the war, or so my parents told me, they lived in Manchester, at the back of the main Manchester railway line.

Unfortunately, our house was bombed during the war. It wasn't actually destroyed, but as they actually dropped the bombs, the house used to shake.

My grandma, who was extemely old at that time and was extremely deaf as well. My parents didn't want to startle her, so what they used to do was to put her in the cubby-hole under the stairs. It had shelves all the way around. We used to stock things in the cubby-hole like soap and soap powder.

One particular day, it was a day of really bad blitz in Manchester, and as they dropped the bombs the house two doors away was destroyed. Our house shook and the shelves in the cubby-hole fell on to my poor grandmother. The shelves had on them the big bars of fairy green soap. So my grandma went down as the first person in history to be killed - not by the Germans - but by the fairies!

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