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My Mother (Elsie Eileen Whatmore) had to cross the city centre on foot the morning following the Sheffield Blitz — she’d spent all night in the cellar.

She told me she has vivid memories of climbing over the masonry and seeing the burnt out tram cars and smoking ruins of the shops.

This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Becky Barugh of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Shropshire CSV Action Desk on behalf of Rhys Whatmore and has been added to the site with his permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.

See more of Rhys’s family’s stories and photographs:

• Extracts from ‘Recollections of an NCO’
• Cairo 1941
• The Great Pyramid of Giza, 1941
• Palestine 1942
• Stuck in the middle

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