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This story is submitted by a volunteer on behalf of Radio Bristol Action Desk at City of Bristol College.

Doreen went to Marywood Grammar School and on Sundays they always walked to her grandmother's in Midland Road, The Batch.

The coal was kept in a cupboard under the stairs and when there was a bomb scare we had to go in the cupboard on top of the coal. Then we were told to 'run for it' and went to the pub under the Midland Road Bridge and sat in the cellars with hundreds of other people. The landlord said we could all have free drinks so we all had lemonade.

When we were walking to town we wondered what all these lights coming down were - they were incendiaries. The firemen didn't want you to go through because everything was burning. We had to go by the Cut to Ashton.

My Deanna Durbin hat ended up on a chimmney pot. It was blown up when the house was flattened. If we hadn't run for it, we would have been killed.

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