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I was nine years old when the war started.
My parents kept the public house 'The Bulls Head' on Loughborough Road, Belgrave in Leicester.
We only opened three days a week because of the shortage of beer supplies.
I remember standing outside the pub when an incendary bomb hit Freeman, Hardy and Willis. We stood and watched.
When air raid sirens sounded my mother made us go into the cellar.
I used to keep newts in the cellar and one ran over my mothers foot and that was the last time we went down there.

The busiest time in the pub was Sunday morning.
My father opened the pub at 11.30am and would have pints lined up on the bar.
People would queue up outside and if he didn't get them lined up then those at the back of the queue would not get a drink before closing time.

'This story was submitted to the People's War Website by Lisa Reeves of CSV Action Desk Leicester on behalf of Anthony Byrne Dakin and has been added with his permission. The author fully understands the sites terms and conditions.'

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