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On the night of heavy bombing in Leicester, I vividly remember there were lots of ATS around when Highfields got hit. The sound of the whistling bombs was awful. My Mum was ill in hospital and my brother Bob and I were in the Millhill Children's Home along the London Road. I can remember the matron saying "We have to get the mattress downstairs into the shelter". We all helped to drag it down. Then I said to the matron "Do you think we should say the Lord's prayer?" To which she replied "Yes Joyce, I think we'd better".

The next morning matron asked my brother and I if we would help clean out the shelter. We were amazed it was full of chocolate! Grandad wouldn't go into a shelter and my Mum thought we had all been killed. I remember the Post Office at the end of the road had been obliterated.

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