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- culture_durham
- People in story:听
- Mr Lawrence Liddle
- Location of story:听
- Ferryhill County Durham
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A4174733
- Contributed on:听
- 10 June 2005
Living in Ferryhill around about 1941 I saw hundreds of planes going overhead, it turned out that they were 鈥渓ost鈥 on their way to bomb Tyneside. The sound of the German Bombers was quite different to that of the RAF planes. However, on this occasion no bombs were dropped.
Another time the air raid sirens went off and this time bombs were dropped and they fell on the colliery yard at Mainsforth Colliery. Nobody was hurt, but the bombs left large craters!
At the end of the war I was in Germany and saw whole cities that had been flattened, the rubble was ploughed to each side to make a 鈥渞oad鈥 through it. Only the odd chimney stack or gable end was still standing.
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