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BAEDEKER RAIDS on York 29/4/1942 - Part 2


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BAEDEKER RAIDS on York 29/4/1942 - Part 2

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Continuing the story of York's bombing... BAEDEKER RAIDS on York 29/4/1942 - In 1942 I lived in my home City of York and after my Dad had left for the war (we saw him again six years later) mother and I and small brother John lived with Auntie Betty in St. Johns Street in a direct line with York Station and the Minster. My memory of the raid was seeing the lady across the street throwing a burning matress from an upstairs window. I should have been in the brick and concrete air-raid shelter in the back yard! I don't think as kids we were afraid - just the grown-ups who actually realised what might have happened. Regarding this film - I recognise the places, like Nunthorpe Grove. I attended Nunthorpe School ten years after the war and lived in Nunthorpe Avenue.

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THERESALWAYSSOMEONE

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1940s, air_raid, Baedeker, bombing, German, railway, sheds, station, World_War, WWII, york,

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