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The German bombers flight path went over the house where we lived, they used the River Severn for direction at night before changing course to Coventry or Birmingham. My parents used to place us 7 children in a porch with seats either side to sleep and they slept directly above us in a small bedroom with my baby brother. My mother said that if a bomb did drop then we would all go together.

I can remember the blackout screens which were placed over the windows, on hearing a plane during the day, I would run and hide under this.

We lived in a cottage attached to a farm where my father was a baliff. Two prisoners of war were sent to work on the farm, Kurt and Willie. Their food rations were very meagre so everyday they used to come to our house for their dinners. They wore pieces of cloth around their feet inside their wellingtons, they kept their decent socks for if they had to go anywhere special. I can remember them making slippers for us from twine they found on the farm. They were very nice gentlemen and after the war they both returned to see us all, I think this was to say thankyou to my parents.

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