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This is a story my grandmother Lily Dorothy Freda Bake (nee Belsey) told me many times. I am not sure of the date but it was sometime during the war when she had a job as the cleaner at Wingham Post Office. At the time she lived in Walmer, Deal about five or six miles away.
She was cycling to work one morning through the quite lovely countryside to Wingham when a distant rumble could be heard from behind her. Coming towards her was a vicar on his bicycle. He obviously could see what the rumble was and acted accordingly. He jumped off of his bike, hurled himself at Freda and pulled her into a ditch alongside the road. Just as he did this a german bomber swooped dowm from the sky straight for them. My grandmother said she could see the german pilots face quite clearly as he passed by.
I am not quite sure what shocked her more, the pilot swooping his plane down towards them or the vicar jumping off his bike, dragging her into a ditch for safety.
My grandmother died five years ago, but this story was one of her favourites and it was told many times.

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