NextBack“In the early days a Heinkel 111 came over in broad daylight. It went over Bordesley, my mother had gone there to see a friend of hers whose husband had died. She was out in the garden when this aeroplane came over and she saw straight away that it was a German plane. It flew over Hewell and circled back over the farm. There was a Bofor machine gun on Lowans Hill (where we farmed), one at the gas works and another on our farm in Brockhill Lane.”
“The gunners all watched this thing, they didn't know what it was. When it got over Saint Stephen's Church the biggest bomb you have ever seen wobbled out of the bottom of it. It just missed the BSA. The crater the bomb made was so large that it was later made into a swimming pool. As soon as the bomb emerged the gunners started firing at it. I heard that it had come down on the east coast.”
