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posted on 2024-06-05, 19:51 authored by Their Finest Hour Project Team
<p dir="ltr">My husband's grandparents lived above the YMCA in Coventry. When they got bombed they decided to move to Leamington.</p><p>My father lived in Worcester Park in London. He was a child during the war. A low-flying bomb exploded at the end of his road and the windows of his house blew out. The family moved to Kent with his mother's brother. A bomb landed in a playground.</p>

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Shared at Ahmadiyyah Mosque Hall, Warwickshire on 7 October 2023. The event was organised by Leamington History Group.

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