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Myself and John the Farm Baliffs son were gathering the farms cattle from one field and moving them to the next when a German Aircraft flying overhead very low and scared us half to death. Butterley Way in Buttterley near Swanwick Qualcast used to burn molton gas as a way to guide the poilots overhead. I was only ten years old, seven when the WW2 broke out.

I was sleeping on the sofa listening to the wireless and was woken as they (Germans) bombed "Yellow Yard - Swanwick Derbyshire.

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