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I was born after the war but I can remember my dad telling me about the steel works where he worked. He had lost his leg when he was 14 years old. He worked at the steel works all through the war.

Mum was a housewife, they lived in Sheffield. My sister was born in 1940.

They were walking down Harvey Clough Road at Norton Leighs (Sheffield) when they got shot at by a plane. They had to dive into someone鈥檚 garden hedge to take cove because they plane was machine gunning along the road.

They had made their own air raid shelter in the garden under a tree. They used tons of concrete. It was on Woodland Road at Sheffield.

A bomb dropped in the garden and shrapnel came through the windows, a piece of it embedded in the wardrobe.

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