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I was working at the BTH in Lower Ford Street. I lived in 33 New Street, I always came to the shelter at the Cathedral when there was an air raid, my thoughts were they would never bomb a church but we my sister Mary and my neighbours could see the flairs coming down, as they were very low. We got into the shelter. We could hear the walls of the Cathedral falling down, the walls got hot, and the noise and the heat were terrifying. The warden told us we would have to leave, myself and my sister had to drag an elderly neighbour through the churchyard everything was on fire, the Golden Cross, the houses on the far side. We were taken to Anslows to a cellar, at the side of the council house, it was then hit and we thought our time had come.

At about six in the morning the all clear went. When we came out we made our way home. Our mum was worried because they were in Cox Street and heard the cathedral was hit, our brother had come looking for us. When we got home, our house had been hit. The dog had been blown up the chimney he was still alive but was so traumatised he had to be put down. The family got together, we went to live in Bulkington with an old couple in a farm cottage, we then got a house in John Grey Street and that was the start of our lives after the war.

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