大象传媒

I was born on 22.10.1934 at No. 9 Lancaster Street, Bramley Vale about six miles from Chesterfield, Derbyshire. At the age of five I left Bramley Vale infants to go to Stainsby School in a farming village two miles from Bramley Vale to walkd it over fields and paths in all weathers. On 30.9.at 6am a Monday morning I recall a German bomb was dropped on a cowshed near an orchard on Otterwells Farm in Stainsby. The explosion killed ten cows and numerous animals including ducs, pigs geese etc. It also blew roofs and windows in and they found shranel embedded in beams in he cottages, soot and broken crockery was everwhere. Luckly noone was killed, I was in bed when the bomb dropped soot crookery and furninture was shattered in Bramley Vale

There was an awful smell of gas around. Men who had been working on the day shift at the pit helped to clear up the mess.

When I left to go to school that morning my pal and I got to where he called the "Red Lane" there were bits and pieces of animals and other creatures in the hedges. We were diverted via the road and school lane because of the devasation we hoped the school had been hit but only a few windows were broken and bookks a derbi laying around. It rained that morning I remember sitting in wet clothes all day. When I got home that evening my Dad was there. When we got something to drink from my Dad he said to my Mam theres one ting we "saht have to sweep the "bloody chimneys this year"

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