- Contributed byÌý
- littleEmilyRatcliffe
- Location of story:Ìý
- Dukinfield, Cheshire
- Background to story:Ìý
- Civilian
- Article ID:Ìý
- A3349668
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 30 November 2004
Although we were not living in the centre of Manchester, it was a horrible experience. We could hear the planes going over our house and wondered if one would fall on us.
I worked in Hyde from the age of 14 years. A bomb fell on a row of houses during the night. We went to look during our lunch hour. The houses were down to the ground. I collected a piece of shrapnel, which I kept.
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