- Contributed byÌý
- actiondesksheffield
- People in story:Ìý
- Tony Morley
- Location of story:Ìý
- Shiregreen Lane, Sheffield
- Background to story:Ìý
- Civilian
- Article ID:Ìý
- A4083257
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 17 May 2005
This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Bill Ross of the ‘Action Desk — Sheffield’ Team on behalf of Tony Morley, and has been added to the site with the author’s permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.
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"Fish and Chip Supper"
by
Janet Boam
Tony Morley was 9 and living in Shiregreen Lane when the following incident, which he remembers vividly, took place.
The year was 1944, the sirens had sounded and all had taken their places in the Anderson Shelter in the back yard. Two doors on from where Tony lived, was a fish and chip shop. The owner also took her place in the shelter and was grumbling that when the sirens sounded, she had had a shop full of customers awaiting the fish and chips which were cooking in the pans
As the sirens sounded the customers vanished, so she turned off the pans leaving all the fish and chips, and headed for the shelter. On hearing this, Tony and his friend ran out of the shelter intent on rescuing the fish and chips. He remembers looking up and seeing a German plane just above the houses - it was lit up by a searchlight and he could see the markings clearly. They ran into the shop, which was in darkness, and managed to find the scoop to get the fish and chips out of the pans.
Looking around for something to put them in, they remembered that one of the neighbours had a large tin bath hanging on a nail in the wall, in the yard outside. Wasting no time, they fetched it into the shop and proceeded to empty the chips and fish into it.
When all the fish and chips were in the bath, they set off back towards the shelter.
They had just passed the row of dustbins in the yard, when there was an almighty crash behind them.
They made it to the shelter and hungry mouths soon devoured the fish and ships from the bath.
The next day, on emerging from the shelter, they saw a huge hole in one of the dustbins. It had been hit by a piece of shrapnel which must have missed them by inches!
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