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I was born in 1932 and can remember the war and my father being away I think I only saw him five times during the war. He never talked about it after he came home. I was a child but I can remember the night of the eleven hour raid and moving around from different shelters whilst the bombs were going off . the first shelter we were in was a brick one which split and then we were in an Anderson shelter but we had to move on because of a land mine. I can remember running through the streets to a third shelter with my mum.

My school was Gower street school and it was bombed, we had to wait six months for a new school we used to play with shrapnel and I remember a friend finding a hand grenade and us taking to the police station.

this story was submitted to the People's war website by Liz Goddard on behalf of Mr Ashford who understands the site's terms and conditions.

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