NextBack“We were all fitted with gas masks and if you forgot to take your gas mask to school you were sent home to fetch it. The younger children had Mickey Mouse masks and, for the baby, there was a frame like a miniature oxygen tent with a pump. If the siren went when we were at school, we had to go from Saint George's to the recreation ground, about five minutes away, where there was a brick built shelter. A static water tank for the fire service was also there.”
“Loads of incendiary bombs were dropped on Redditch but only three actual bombs hit the town, one failed to explode, another damaged the Birmingham Small Arms factory and a third fell in Glover Street when people were killed. The blast from the bomb in Glover Street blew me across the shelter and I hurt my shoulder.”
“The unexploded bomb dropped on the corner of Arrowdale Road and the Studley Road in the front garden of the man who ran Brittains Coaches. We had to leave our house, I stayed at my gran's and put a candle too close to a mirror and cracked it.”
