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A War Time Memory

My parents worked in Bristol at the Filton Aircraft Factory. (My sister and I had been evacuated to Bideford)
There was an air raid in Bristol and the workers had to go to the shelters. My mother, who was heading for one changed her mind because a man who was paying her un-wanted attentions was going to the same shelter so she went to a different one. During the raid the people in the first shelter were singing the popular song of the time “Somewhere over the rainbow”. While they were singing this song that shelter received a direct hit and everyone was killed. The head of one of mother’s friends was in the lap of another worker.

We children were never allowed to sing that song ever again, and when it came on the radio we had to turn it off, because if my mother heard it she always fainted.

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