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I moved to Bath to get away from the bombing. I was a nanny and had only been there 10 weeks when the Bath Raids started. On the first night all the windows exploded. Bath was an ‘Open City’ so we thought the bombs had been dropped on us by mistake for Bristol. But the next night they came back and Oh Boy did we get it.

A lot of the tall houses in Lansdowne Crescent had incendiaries dropped on the top balconies. Therefore the houses burnt from the top down. This was a very strange sight but it did enable my employer to keep running in and saving items floor by floor.

The WRENS had taken over the Royal School at the top of the road and they came down and gave us hot chocolate and food.

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