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My Grandma, Edna Lewis, lived at Landsdown in Bath with her husband during the late 1930s early 1940s. One night there was a bombing raid and my Grandma became very worried about her mother-in-law who lived at Rudmore Park over the other side of the city. My Grandma ran through the city towards Rudmore Park losing her shoes in the process. She remembered passing a department store that had been hit and hearing the screams of the people who had been trapped in the rubble. Grandma arrived at Rudmore Park in a terrible state to find her mother-in-law sitting in her armchair totally oblivious to the chaos. Apparently the old lady, who was hard of hearing, had not heard a thing!

My Grandma also had a lucky escape when her house at Bath received a direct hit. Grandma had just laid my mother in her cot walked towards the door of the room when a sixth sense told her to turn round and pick up my mother. Gran picked up my mother and left the room. A minute later the room was a pile of rubble.

My grandparents left Bath and moved to London as my grandfather had been enlisted into the Auxiliary Fire Service. They packed up all their possessions and sent them to Bath Railway Station to be taken to London. Unbelievably. many of their possessins were looted in transport by unscrupulous ralway staff! My Grandma had already lost treasured possessions as her mother's house at Plymouth had been reduced to rubble so this was a double blow!

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