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The lasting effects
The Luftwaffe
Life during the Blitz
Air raid shelters
Life during the Blitz
Mr Marshall recalls how the dogs always whined before the bombing.
Mr & Mrs Marshall describes how they watched out for fires from the roofs of buildings.
Mrs Marshall remembers how she leant on a tarpaulin which covered a pile of dead bodies.
Mrs Marshall describes the long term effect the Blitz had on her life.
Mr Marshall talks about buying petrol on the black market.
Mr Raymond Terry recalls the day a bomb blew him and his mother out of the front door.
Mr Raymond Terry explains how after a bomb hit the back of their house, all that was left was the front wall.
Mrs Anne Gorton talks of waiting for the shrapnel to stop so she could get to the air raid shelter.
Mrs Anne Gorton describes how her dad helped to move an unexploded bomb.
Mrs Dolly Lloyd talks of listening to Lord Haw Haw on the radio and of how it was a testing time.
Mrs Dolly Lloyd recalls her memories of the start of the May Blitz.
Mrs Kathleen Wood recalls how her Grandma's house and the whole street were on fire.
Mrs Kathleen Wood explains how people were digging out rubble with their bare hands.
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