I watched from my bedroom window

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As the bombs rained down on the Gas works and Filbert Street we were lucky living with Grandma and Grandad that we were half a mile away from the German Flight path, on there was home from devastating Coventry places around Aylestone Road also took hits as the ejected bombs what was left after Coventry .
 
My mum and my grandparents lived in Greenhill just outside Coalville. ( it’s one of the highest points in Leics). On the night of the Coventry raid my mum told me her dad took her outside as they could see Coventry clearly burning in the distance even though it was a good 20+ miles away as the crow flies. She was 12 at the time.
 
You can follow a line of old bomb craters from the Jag in Birmingham across Pype Hayes Park and off up to Wishaw dropped after one raid...
 
Sep Smith was walking the streets of Leicester, on the night that Coventry was bombed. He said he could hear the bombs exploding and could see the glow of the fires, 24 miles away.

19th November 1940 was the bigger raid in Leicester. 550 homes destroyed and 108 people killed.
 
sixthswan said:
Sep Smith was walking the streets of Leicester, on the night that Coventry was bombed. He said he could hear the bombs exploding and could see the glow of the fires, 24 miles away.

19th November 1940 was the bigger raid in Leicester. 550 homes destroyed and 108 people killed.
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My mums uncle Fred was an undertaker in Cov, he never got over of it
 
sixthswan said:
Sep Smith was walking the streets of Leicester, on the night that Coventry was bombed. He said he could hear the bombs exploding and could see the glow of the fires, 24 miles away.

19th November 1940 was the bigger raid in Leicester. 550 homes destroyed and 108 people killed.
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My Grandparents and late mother lived on Scraptoft Lane and 6 of them were in an Anderson shelter in the garden when 2 land mines were drooped on Steel & Busks
in Temple Rd. My mother related that when the explosion hit, her younger brother's hair shot straight up.
Apparently there were also many casualties in the Thurmason ln -Barkby Rd area when the Germans were aiming for the railway line.
 
My grandad got 3 weeks in nick for threatening to shoot an ARP warden with a 12 bore whilst on leave from his posting fro Belgium
 
Tales from my childhood were that the bit of derelict land behind The Imperial pub on Mere Rd in the Highfields was the victim of a German bomb, either dropped in error on the way to Coventry or discarded on the way back to Germany.
Always had the bonfire night fire on it every year and we all called it the ‘bombed building’
 
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