Elsie Smith, aged 12
- Reference No:
- L DEX24/23
- Dates:
- 9 Feb 1942
- Description:
Recalls hearing a loud bang and ran down the stairs when there was a crash and all of the windows smashed. A man had to break-down the front door, which was locked, to help her mother and her escape just as a bomb hit the house. Another bomb caused the shelter to collapse and they were trapped for 15 minutes before some soldiers rescued them and they were taken by bus to a Rest Centre.
She finishes by saying that in all of the other raids 'we went into the shelter and went to sleep on the bunks'.
- Format:
- Archive Item
- Extent:
- 1 item/2 pages
- Access Conditions:
- Photocopies, but not the originals, are available to any accredited reader
- Repository:
- Hull Local Studies Library
- Collection:
- Children's Recollections of the Blitz