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When I was a child, I used to live in London Road, East Grinstead above "Dixon's" the Chemist. I can remember the day when the German plane came down over the town and bombed the Whitehall cinema. It was 12th July 1944 and I was 11.

The time would have been about 4 o'clock as I had just got home from school. my sister was looking out of the window and as i looked out, the German plane dropped his bombs. My sister grabbed me and we both ran down the stairs. People were coming in the gate from the street as the plane was machine gunning the town - and they lay on top of us to protect us.

Before the Whitehall was bombed, we were also bombed on the 9th July 1943, when "Bridglands" Ironmongers and the "Warwick" public house was hit. To this day, there is still a dent in the brickwork in the Solicitor's offices just down from my old house, where we were machined gunned.

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