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Old 12th February 2019, 22:05
Harry Nicholson United Kingdom Harry Nicholson is offline
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That is a great archive, John. All those facts and personal evidence are a vital history. Thanks for posting it all.
I've a memory of a raid on Hartlepool:
One night, when we were fire-bombed, I'd been stopped from fighting off the bombers. The cornfields opposite our house were in flames, you could even see the blaze through the thick blackout curtains. We'd taken shelter under the heavy kitchen table. I was indignant. I grabbed my wooden spinning top and, yelling: 'Me bomb Hitler back,' rushed to the window. I was about to hurl the top at the German planes, straight through the blackout curtains, when I was grabbed from behind. Dad pulled me back under cover and held me down. The old table was our air-raid shelter that night; the proper one (the corrugated iron Anderson in the garden) had flooded.

Mam came home one night in a state. In the pitch dark of the blackout she had wandered off the path and fallen into a bomb crater. Soldiers heard her cries and pulled her out
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