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- clevelandcsv
- People in story:听
- Mrs Betty Hygate (Miss Betty Brown)
- Location of story:听
- Coventry
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A4500659
- Contributed on:听
- 20 July 2005
Cue the Music
I was in Show Business during the War and was part of a troupe playing the Hippodrome, Coventry.This Theatre was unique as it had showers so we could use them inbetween shows.One night after a show I returned to my 'digs' and decided to have a bath, I had just got in when the siren went,I rushed out of the bath and wrapped two towels round my top and bottom and went as fast as I could to the nearest shelter.This was down some stairs outside ,at the back of the 'digs'.When the all clear went I made my way back.As I went through the door, I kicked something on the floor,it was then I realised I had run to the shelter with only one towel, which I had been clutching to my chest.I had, before then, taken part in a dance routine which involved carefully placed feathers, so nudity on stage was nothing new but that night,I nearly died with embarrassment but nobody in the shelter told me.
Written with permission of Mrs Betty Hygate and submitted by Ged Fleming, Cleveland CSV (story gatherer)
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