- Contributed by听
- CSV Action Desk Leicester
- People in story:听
- The Whitehouse Family
- Location of story:听
- Coalville Leicestershire
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A4208618
- Contributed on:听
- 17 June 2005
I was born in 1940 at 54, Scotlands Drive, Coalville, Leicestershire, the youngest of the Whitehouse family. When the bombing started I was put under the bed in a clothes basket for safety. On one raid a bomb was heading straight down the road towards our house and a neighbour was heard to shout "O God the Whitehouse family are gone" but at the last minute the bomb veered away on to waste ground without exploding at the end of the cul-de-sac. All occupants had to be evacuated until the bomb had been made safe and so we were taken to my Godmothers on Broomleys Road and then to our Aunty's in Charnwood Street Coalville. This story was passed on by my mother and still remembered by my elder sister Peggy.
'This story was submitted to the People's War site by Sara-Jane Higginbottom of the CSV Action Desk Leicester on behalf of Pamela Jones (Whitehouse) and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.'
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