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- StokeCSVActionDesk
- People in story:听
- Joyce Twist
- Location of story:听
- Stoke On Trent
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A4227284
- Contributed on:听
- 20 June 2005
This story was submitted to the People鈥檚 War site by Mike Millington of CSV on behalf of Joyce Twist and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.
My husband was a Police Sergeant during the war and we lived in different Police stations. His name was Sgt Twist and he was very well known in the local area.
We lived for a while in Abbey Hulton and that was a rough place then. There was blood on the office floor every weekend. You鈥檇 see them fighting and swearing on a Saturday night and next morning off to church to ask forgiveness.
I remember hearing the sirens one day and running off towards the Abbey Inn where the shelter was. We hadn鈥檛 quite reached the pub when a bomb landed about 200 yards away on Trent Terrace. There was a terrific explosion but fortunately we were safe.
I remember that German plane that came down on the Butts in Abbey Hulton too, the Butts was a grassy area, I can鈥檛 remember what year that was.
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