- Contributed by听
- ambervalley
- People in story:听
- Leslie and Doris Wheatley nee Jones
- Location of story:听
- Ironville, Derbyshire
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A2774496
- Contributed on:听
- 23 June 2004
I was born Doris Jones in Ironville in Derbyshire on the 8th July 1911. I lived on King William Street with my parents Samuel and Edith Jones, sisters Beatrice, Alice, Phyllis and my baby brother Dennis.
By the time the war was upon us I was married (Ironville Church 1931) to my husband Leslie Wheatley. And we had two daughters Jean and Rita. Jean and Ria were at school when the war began and when the air raid sirens sounded we had to take the children up to the Coal Board Colliery Offices for protection.
I remember once when an German airship came down really low at the bottom of King William Street in Ironville near to the Canal Bridge, everyone in the town were frightened as we did not know what was going to happen to us if it landed.
Once a bomb dropped in the reservoir at Ironville and blew up all of the fish, everyone had a fish supper that night in the village...except me I never saw one fish!
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