The Night the Bombs Fell

"Three bombs had been dropped, one in Kathleen Place at the top of Evesham Street one in Orchard Street at the back of our house and the next one had landed in Glover Street at the front of our house. Seven people had been killed, one of them was a babe in arms. The mother had been sitting with the baby on the rug in front of the are when the bomb had hit the house.

That family were the only people in the street with a proper air-raid shelter, which the husband, Harold Latham, had built himself, but they hadn't been in it.”

“Those were the days of toilets in the garden. Harold had been in the garden talking to an older man, Bill Bonner, who was in the toilet. Bill had his head blown off. Harold was blown down the garden and he was blinded. He lost everything he possessed, his home, his wife and his baby. Even the clothes he stood up in were blown off him.”

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