- Contributed by
- A7431347
- People in story:
- Terry, Sylvie and Ethel Brown
- Location of story:
- Leicester
- Background to story:
- Civilian
- Article ID:
- A6416705
- Contributed on:
- 26 October 2005
In 1940, we got evacuated to Leicester with my sister Sylvie. She’d ‘ve been two or something.
I remember being caught under a table with me mum and me sister. We heard the thing make a noise (the doodlebug) when it was going and it stopped. You knew that was it; someone was going to cop it. And someone did ‘cos the next day, part of Smeetham Road was gone, flattened. We didn’t get to the Anderson Shelter on time.
I was a bit scared, but one got used to it and took it in one’s stride.
This story was submitted to the People’s War Site by Helena Noifeld of BBC Radio Kent and has been added to the website on behalf of Terry Brown with his permission and he fully understands the site’s terms and conditions.
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