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In 1940 smokescreens were places outside the front door which went up in tiers. Smoke was to go over the city if the wind was in the right direction. The planes followed the river Trent to go to Sheffield, Liverpool etc. We had air raid shelters and everything we lived in the shelters.
In 1941 in Nottingham we had the blitz which was terrible, that night we hadn鈥檛 gone to the shelter as the sirens had gone then and then it was peace for 陆 hour then all hell broke out. We sat on the side of the bath in the downstairs bathroom, that was full of water in case of fires. When we weren鈥檛 doing that we were hiding under the dining room table. When the raid had finished we came out to see 5 fires raging, it was getting daylight then. All around the London Road area was on fire, Boots on Station Street, on the other corner a garage was on fire, Dunlop Fire place, Lace market factory we鈥檙e all burning.
I had a friend who lived on Trent Boulevard. He went and looked out the front door and a bomb hit the back and killed him, which was ironic as he was on leave from the Air force and got killed on his own doorstep. I had a school friend who was in an air raid shelter under a factory in Daykin Street and the factory was hit and her and her family were killed.

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