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This story is a account of the events that happened on the night of the Coventry raid 鈥� Nov 14/15th 1940 my mother had lots of tales to tell of life in Birmingham during the war years this is one she told us often.
My mother and father Alfred and Edith Rubini were living at 31, Hampton rd, Erdington, Birmingham. during the war years and like many of residences had a 鈥淎nderson bomb shelter鈥� in the back garden, which many of the neighbors also used if they did not have one of there own, my Mom said some nights their were 10 people in it including my sister Sylvia who was just a toddler at the time, and the dog named Peter who ran for the shelter minutes before the air raid sirens sounded, he was a definite early warning system.
My father was working at a factory in Kings Norton where they manufactured 鈥淒rop Tanks鈥� for airplanes, a man my father was working with at the factory had just come over from Ireland and brought his pregnant wife, as they had nowhere permanent to live my father offered them rooms in our home, which they accepted thankfully, there names where Christie and Maggie O鈥機onnor and happily settled into our home when on the night of the 14th Nov 1941 the massive air raid took place, that very night Maggie decided to go into labour, her husband Christie went out to fetch the midwife who was too frightened to come out on that night, Christie returned home carrying large pieces of shrapnel which was falling everywhere he said the whole skyline was red from the city of Coventry burning. It was then decided to see if the Doctor would come and he was sent for and fortunately did come to the home to assist with the birth; a lovely baby girl was born that night she was named Christina.
After everyone was settled a stray bomb landed on the house across the road destroying it and killing the couple who lived there, nearly ever window in our house was shattered from the explosion and by a stroke of divine intervention the new baby had been laying in her crib by the window and had just been picked up thankfully as the broken glass fell into the crib where the baby had been laying!
It was a night to remember surely for all and fortunately it had a happy ending.

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