Air Raid Shelter

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Contributed by: ateamwar
People in story:: Christina Davies
Location of story:: Grimsby
Background to story:: Civilian
Article ID:: A4110896
Contributed on:: 24 May 2005

I was born on 16th May 1939, as a child I remember being woken up in the night to go to the air raid shelter. I didn’t like it very much. When I was at school, we’d even have to take shelter in the coal stores. One Christmas Eve, when we were sheltering, one thought troubled me; would Father Christmas be able to find us. I also remember hearing the Football results on a Saturday; I thought they referred to the amount of bombs being dropped on each city!

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