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Birmingham Newspapers 1939-1945

reading about incendiary bombs reminds me of dad telling me that he and his dad climbed the outside ladders of the factory opposite their house in villa st and knocked off the bombs that had landed on the roof...dad was evacuated but like so many came home after a couple of years thinking there would be no bombing...how wrong they were... dad lived in hunters vale off villa st and when a bomb hit not far away from dads house he said it shook the house..a couple of incendiary bombs landed on the wall of hockley brook which they pushed into the cut with long poles..how folk coped i will never know

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Interesting article on Birmingham’s position as of Birmingham Gazette 11 Nov 1940 in the Birmingham Gazette 11 Nov 1940.

City Decides On A.R.P. Check-up. "MACHINERY BROKEN DOWN"-Councillor

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