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My Granddad lived in an Off Licence on Vulcan Road, Leicester. When a landmine came down the windows in the shop were broken and the doors blew open. His mother was blown down the cellar steps (the cellar was used as an air raid shelter). NO bottles were broken in the shop. In the backyard the shed roof was badly damaged by the kerbstones which had been blown over the roof tops of the houses on the opposite side of the street. A sailor who lived across the road had stored his bike in his shed while he was away at war. A kerbstone blew through his shed roof and damaged his bike. When the landmine exploded it was only 50 yards away from the Off Licence. The Air Raid Warden, who was sheltering in an alleyway between the houses, was killed when the bomb exploded. When my Granddad went out after the air raid the street was full of rubble and you couldn鈥檛 drive a car down the street.

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