- Contributed by听
- cornwallcsv
- People in story:听
- Peter Gilson
- Location of story:听
- Falmouth Cornwall
- Article ID:听
- A8709988
- Contributed on:听
- 21 January 2006
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This story has been added by CSV volunteer Linda Clark on behalf of the author Peter Gilson. His story was given to the Trebah Video Archive, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund in 2004. The Trebah Garden Trust understand the site鈥檚 terms and conditions.
The first bombs were dropped on Falmouth on July 7th 1940 and I remember the Germans were most inconsiderate, dropping bombs on Lister Street in the middle of my birthday party and ruining it. We all went outside to watch the bombs and it was a rather sobering experience when you saw these black things fall out of an aircraft and hit the ground with a great cloud of dust and smoke. You wondered what was underneath that and we all found out later when we went up there and saw the great gaps in the houses. It was then that we began to realise what war was about because I knew a family who were quite badly affected by the bombing.
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