The Night the Bombs Fell

Dorothy Manson  remembers…..NextBack

The night the bomb fell My dad came across and said,   “Look, we have got a lady over the road, she's just been dug out of the rubble of her house'. He said that she had got broken ribs and was suffering from severe shock and she wasn't expected to live the night, so could they bring her to us and could mum look after her?”


“We had only got a little narrow hallway and we had to bring the stretcher through the window.


Mum and I nursed her all night and she recovered. We had this lady, her husband and her son staying with us for about a week, until the Council managed to recluse them. They were all in a terrible state of shock.”

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