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- WMCSVActionDesk
- People in story:听
- Peter Howard Aston
- Location of story:听
- Small Heath in Birmingham
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A4162475
- Contributed on:听
- 07 June 2005
In January or February of 1941 or 1942 we were in the Anderson shelter in next door's garden at night. We heard a bang and were told not to go out. We went out at 7 or 8am at first light. All we could see were chimney pots of all the surrounding houses including our own but all the roofs had been blown off . There were slates everywhere. The bomb must have gone off in the air and had peeled off the roofs like an orange or a banana. As we had nowhere else to stay we stopped in the house for up to a week . It rained a bit and the house was very damp but not too cold. We were invited to stay with a colleague of my fathers in Weoley castle until the house was repaired which took three months.
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