Betty Wood, aged 11 years 8 months
- Reference No:
- L DEX24/29
- Dates:
- 9 Feb 1942
- Description:
Recalls going to the Air Raid shelter to sleep when she heard a bang and the shelter rocked and then the wall came-in after another explosion. Her brother left the shelter to put out a fire bomb but was blown back into the shelter by another bomb nearby. He then noticed that their house was on fire 'and I started to cry'. It seems a bomb had hit the cable of the barrage balloon which had then hit the top of their house and others in the street.
Another bomb hit a neighbour, the Binnington's, with the blast damaging the door to their shelter. She finishes by saying that after the raid 'it became very quiet, and soon after the all clear went'.
- Format:
- Archive Item
- Extent:
- 1 item/5 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