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posted on 2024-06-05, 19:51 authored by Their Finest Hour Project Team

My husband's grandparents lived above the YMCA in Coventry. When they got bombed they decided to move to Leamington.

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.

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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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