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My mother was 9 years old when Bootle was hit by what is known as "The May Blitz" She lived in Milton Street just off Marsh Lane.
One evening during a visit to a friend in near by Tennyson Street the sirens sounded so they took shelter in a brick air raid shelter in Tennyson Street. During this raid a HE Bomb hit the shelter.
My Mother remembers waking up stunned with an ARP warden and 3 rescue workers lifting a large lump of the concrete roof off her foot (She still bears the scars today) the ARP warden was telling her not to look to her left which like any other child would do she did, she then reconised her friends mother sitting bolt upright, dead she had her left eye resting on her cheek. My mother felt a strange tingle sensation on her head, she put her hand up to feel it, it was her hair standing on end with the fright. My mother was taken by ambulance to Bootle Hospital on Derby Road and remembers the ambulance driving around bomb creaters with the sound of shrapnel pinging off its roof.The ambulance was diverted to the fever hospital at Fernhill Road / Linacre Lane were she was treated along with many other people.

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