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I was born march 1935 in Kirkland Road Braunstone, Leicester at the outbreak of the war I was four and a half. I went to Raven Hurst Road School and we always seemed to have air raid warnings on a Friday afternoon and our teacher always got annoyed.
We had to file out towards the air raid station at the end of the playing fields.
I always remember that I loved the scrambled eggs that my Mother made for me.
Which came out a dark brown grease proof package, which came over on the ‘Lend Lease’ element from America.

I also remember
The Ambulance Trains Round about Dunkirk time, early in the War, going by Aylestone on the Great Central Line ( steam engines).
I remember the Aircraft / Fire Spotters on the roofs of the Lockheed Factory later called Jones and Shipman. It is on records that Lockheed was on the Bombing Runs of the German Airforce.
I remember my Mother hauling me in unceremoniously, as when the sirens went for a daylight raid on the Cavendish Road Area of Leicester, between Saffron Lane and Welford Road and Aylestone Road area. Probably targeting the then well known Gas Storage Tanks that predominated the skyline and linked to the Leicester Power Station, an important target also.

I remember the Convoys of men, equipment, transport, heading south, along Narborough Road, towards what I now believe to be the ‘Second Front’.
There used to be tanks and everything going along that road .

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