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15 October 2014
WW2 - People's War

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The Broken Book Case

by Ipswich Museum

Contributed by听
Ipswich Museum
People in story:听
Iris Smith
Location of story:听
Ipswich
Background to story:听
Civilian
Article ID:听
A3436157
Contributed on:听
22 December 2004

I remember the mine dropped in cemetery Road in Ipswich and it shattered my mother鈥檚 glass fronted bookcase at number 20 Finchley Road. I was going to the Co-Op in Norwich Road. I had my baby in the pram, and a German plane appeared so low that I shot into one of the gardens.

A bomb was dropped on Westbourne School. I can also remember all the British planes going over our house.

I got married before the war, and remember I was evacuated to Leicester with my son. As my father was a policeman, we were evacuated to a police house. I was there for about six to seven months.

My husband Harry was in a reserved occupation (milk marketing) so he didn鈥檛 get called up.

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