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He remembers that once the siren went off his mother would usher his brother and himself to the pantry below the stairs. This was considered to be the safest place in the house. The night that Coventry was heavily bombed his mother took them outside the house to see the glow in the sky of Coventry burning, which was 14 miles away.

The only local bombing was a housing estate nearby — three bombs were dropped in the back garden of one house, another in front in the road making a large crater, and the last was in the back garden of the house opposite.

This was after Coventry was hit and Peter assumes it was when the aircrafts were returning to base.

He remembers that once the siren went off his mother would usher his brother and himself to the pantry below the stairs. This was considered to be the safest place in the house. The night that Coventry was heavily bombed his mother took them outside the house to see the glow in the sky of Coventry burning, which was 14 miles away.

The only local bombing was a housing estate nearby — three bombs were dropped in the back garden of one house, another in front in the road making a large crater, and the last was in the back garden of the house opposite.

This was after Coventry was hit and Peter assumes it was when the aircrafts were returning to base.

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