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This story was told to Christine Barker at the VE Celebrations in Beverley in 2005
Beverley by Elizabeth Atkinson (nee McLean)

During the war my dad lived on Hessle Road, opposite Gordon Street Police Station. My mother had gone into the air raid shelter after running with my baby boy. My little boy was with me and my dad, my dad had his old kit bag from the first world war full of blankets to take to the shelter and this plane came over I can’t tell you what my dad said because it started shooting. Then my dad shouted ‘for god sake don’t stop running’ so my dad had the big bag and I had the toddler we were running fast, my dad saying ‘that B*’s no learner, he’s been here before’ because he was so close you could actually see light of the plane.
I’d have been about 23 then.

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