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So far as I can remember, Loughborough had no direct air raids, although there was a fair amount of industry there. On one occasion there was a warning, and I remember hiding under the kitchen table (a light, pine construction) which made us feel safe. There was one Big Bang, and we later heard that a German bomber, returning home from a raid, had jettisoned bombs in Tucker’s Brickyard claypit a short distance away.

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