- Contributed by
- BBC Open Centre, Hull
- People in story:
- Albert Blowman
- Location of story:
- Hull
- Background to story:
- Civilian
- Article ID:
- A4157435
- Contributed on:
- 06 June 2005
Story told to Christine Barker at the VE Day Celebrations in Beverley 2005
I was only evacuated for 5 or 6 weeks then I came home, I wouldn’t stay. I was glad to be home but we went through all the bombing in Hull after I got back which was horrendous.
We were bombed out three times all together. Twice out of Craven Street, a bridge divided it over the railway so we were bombed out the first time, then we got a house in a Brumbridge Terrace, which was part of Craven Street again. Then a land mine fell at the end of Earle’s Walk, which was at the opposite Craven Street at Hedon Road end and it blew all the front of the house in. We were under a table with my dad, he’d been through the first world war, he’d been in the Marines for 21years, and he said “come on lad it’s time we were going” so we walked out and the front door was laid down so we walked over that to get to the air raid shelter. We walked down Burmbridge Terrace into a terrace opposite in Woodhouse Street, un be known to us there was an unexploded bomb two or three foot from the air raid shelter. I suppose we were lucky really? Mainly we just got on with it.
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