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This story was narrated by Beryl Bellto a few members of staff at the Dingemans Centre in Steyning and put on the website by Charlotte Gill

Beryl had a traumatic time during the Second World War. She lived in Ruislip with her mother and younger brothers including a baby, not far from the RAF base in Northolt. One day she looked out and saw the milkman machine-gunned down as he went up her road.

One of the most memorable but not necessarily happiest moments of Beryl鈥檚 war was the day that a bomb landed on the air raid shelter. Beryl was walking up the road when a bomb dropped nearby. The air-raid warden told her to go the street shelter but she refused. Beryl says she remembers refusing to go and screaming lots. As she was hysterical the warden slapped her face to calm her down. Instead of having a calming effect it made Beryl run away from the warden and the shelter. She turned to look at the shelter as a bomb landed on it. Everyone in the street shelter died.

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