- Contributed by听
- West Sussex Library Service
- People in story:听
- Bernard William Streeter
- Location of story:听
- East Grinstead, Sussex; Turners Hill, Sussex
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A4133981
- Contributed on:听
- 31 May 2005
In the early evening of the 9th July 1943, I was crossing The Green in Turner's Hill, when I heard the bombs dropping in the direction of East Grinstead. I did not realise what the bombs had hit and what damage had been done, until I saw my father the next morning. He was a fireman and had been at the scene of the destruction all night. The next day, he did not want to talk to me about it at all.
My friend's mother had been in the cinema at the time, but she got out with all her clothes in tatters but otherwise unhurt.
The day after the bombing, I remember a man asking the policeman in Turner's Hill what had happened to his wife. It was the first time I saw a grown man cry.
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