91热爆

This account taken by Denis Price of The 91热爆 People's War Team from Brenda Gale at the Driffield Showground.

During the War when I was about eight years old, we lived down Newbridge Road in Hull.When the sirens went and we knew the bombers were coming we'd all go into the outside air raid shelter with Dad who always smoked his old clay pipe.When the raid was on and we could hear the aircraft engines and bombs dropping he would turn his pipe upside down with the glowing tobacco facing the ground. He told us this was so the German pilots wouldn't see where we were and it wouldn't give us away!
We did get bombed out once so we got emergency food rations given to us. In these rations were some big hard biscuits which we called 'ship' biscuits. My sister and the others would try to get me to say this quickly, hoping I'd make a mistake and say a wrong word, but I didn't, I called them boat biscuits instead!.

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