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This account was taken by Denis Price of the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½`s People`s War Team from Alan Green at the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Humberside Bus at the Driffield Showground.

I was six years old and living down Limetree Avenue, Hessle when two landmines were dropped. It would have been in March 1944. One dropped at the end of Kingston Avenue which is next to Limetree Avenue. About ten houses either side of Limetree were destroyed including my Aunty`s which was number 19. She then moved to number 15.
At the time I was in our shelter with my sister and my parents. The damage was only about 100 yards away. When the `all clear` sounded we came out and I remember seeing this enormous crater which was rapidly filling up with water. Of course I was the first to fall in it and the first person to climb into the damaged houses where on one occasion I couldn`t get down from the upper storey. I was always in bother of this kind, as for me at this age they were very exciting times.

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