- Contributed by听
- marmil
- People in story:听
- Joyce Rason (nee Green)
- Location of story:听
- Burngreave, Pitsmoor, Sheffield
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A7502195
- Contributed on:听
- 03 December 2005
Joyce Rason's recollections of when her school was bombed.
"During the Sundaynight/Monday Morning air raid on 15 December 1940, Burngreave School was bombed. I had attended this school for just three months, having moved there from Ellesmere Road School when I was 11 years old. My teacher was Miss Poxen and our classroom was next door to the headmistress's study.
The bomb hit the Earldom Road corner of the school, destroying these rooms and also the science laboratory cloakrooms and stairs. I can remember going to see the damage and of course Miss Yeats, the headmistress, was there. It was joked that she was looking for her 'strap' that she sometimes had to use on pupils. We understand now what a tragedy it must have been for her. We were soon back at school using the remaining classrooms. The school is now named 'Byron Wood School'.
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