- Contributed by
- The CSV Action Desk at BBC Wiltshire
- People in story:
- Enid Middleton nee Villis, Cyril Thomas Guy
- Location of story:
- Swindon, Wiltshire
- Background to story:
- Civilian
- Article ID:
- A4448063
- Contributed on:
- 13 July 2005
I remember going home from Queenstown School and one German aircraft machine-gunned up Regent Street, and then back down Princess Street where I was walking at the time. Most people dived in doorways for cover. Incidentally one of the bullets made a hole in brother-in-law Cyril Guy's cycle shop at the bottom of Victoria Hill. It was all quite exciting but frightening as well - no one was hurt, as I remember. There was a report and photographs in the local paper, The Evening Advertiser of this event
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