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- Genevieve
- People in story:听
- Robert Burns
- Location of story:听
- Walsall, West Midlands
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A6042656
- Contributed on:听
- 06 October 2005
When the air raids started, we had to go down to the air raid shelter - every night.
The first air raid shelter we had was just a buried bakers van in the back garden; it was a horse-drawn van (obviously we didn鈥檛 put the horse down there too!) We buried this van but as soon as we鈥檇 got it all kitted out we managed to get a proper air raid shelter 鈥 an Anderson Shelter. So we went down there every night, we had an electric kettle down there. My Father never went down to the shelter: he stayed in the house for some unknown reason!
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