1:24:02
...we aII sIept in a room there
in a cottage...
1:24:06
...and the peopIe said
they didn´t want the German chiIdren.
1:24:11
So we didn´t go to the country anymore.
1:24:23
One day the sirens sounded...
1:24:27
...and what was known
as the ´´Coventry Blitz´´ started.
1:24:41
And when the bombs started to fall...
1:24:43
...we stayed at Auntie Vera´s mother´s...
1:24:45
...who had a boarding house.
1:24:48
All night long...
1:24:50
...the bombs rained down...
1:24:52
...and Coventry was a very hot place to be.
1:24:55
We were in one house
and that was bombed.
1:24:59
There was a big fire upstairs
and everybody rushed out.
1:25:36
ln the morning...
1:25:37
...when Auntie Vera
and Uncle Billy came back...
1:25:40
...and they saw one of the boarding houses
without any house...
1:25:44
...just a spiral of a bedstead...
1:25:46
...they were very shocked,
and they thought we´d been killed.
1:25:49
They rushed over to the other house...
1:25:51
...and there we were aII drinking tea,
as aIive as anything...
1:25:55
...and that was the onIy time
I saw Auntie Vera cry.
1:25:59
I think reIief, because...