NextBack“My boyfriend had to come all the my from Birmingham where he worked and he had got stuck at Kings Norton. When he arrived at my house he saw that it had been hit by a bomb. He went marching up to the Council House, he knew that's where they took anybody who had been bombed out When he got there they told him where I had gone. I stayed with his parents until we were married. My parents took lodgings in Batchley”.
“My wedding dress had been hanging upstairs behind a curtain which my mum had stretched across an alcove as a makeshift wardrobe. The bottom was torn off but a friend of mine who lived at Astwood Bank, repaired it so that you couldn't see that It had been damaged.”
“The family were very good, they clubbed together and saved the coupons for our wedding. We even had a wedding cake. The reception was held at the Hungry Man in Evesham Street.”
“After we were married we moved into rooms In Mount Pleasant next door to the Post Office and General Stores. We stayed there for ten or twelve years. The only trouble with Mount Pleasant was those hills! The house that was bombed belonged to Atkins, the bookmakers in Beoley Road. They owned the houses on each side of us as well."
