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This story has been submitted to the Peoples War website by Age Concern Salford and has been submitted to the site on behalf of Ethel who would prefer not to have her surname made public but has given her permission for the story to be told

It was just before Christmas 1940. I was 17- and during the bombing of Salford the whole family would go under the stairs and this night my mother said 'enough is enough- I'm taking you all to the shelter'. This was a very large shelter underneath the timber yard on Montford St. When we came back to the house after the bombing had finished- the only part of the house still standing was part of the kitchen. The school opposite was flattened too. I was heart-broken to see my home gone - I had been born there- and it made me very upset. That night we spent in the church - the next morning we had to go to Central Mission and got clothing coupons as all we had was what we stood up in. We were homeless until we moved in with my father's sister. The night before our house was destroyed the bombing had been so bad it shook out house and I think it was that that made my mother decide to take us to the shelter. If she hadnt we wouldnt be here today.

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