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Paul Sheehan
My 89 year old grandad spoke to me about this recently. He would only have been 14 at the time and he told me how he remembered seeing bombed out Coventry folk wandering around on Gosford Green shell shocked and still in their pyjamas having lost everything on that dreadful and infamous night. My grandad had lost his father and who would have been my great grandfather in the raid. I have nothing but complete pride and admiration for that brave generation of Coventrians who not only endured the terror and devastation of two Coventry Blitzes (April 1941 is often overlooked) but who also never allowed their spirits to be broken and went on to rebuild our city.
Robert Buckley
My late mum and dad came from Coventry and I was always told of the 14th November, mum lost house job and family as well as a birthday card?
Candis Ibberson
My Great Grandfather Christopher Kemp Wells was one of the carpenters that restored the roof in St Mary's Guildhall 1948
Alan Wilson
My grandfather was PCs 20 in Coventry police during the blitz, he was missing for 3 days before he turned up, he had been running a communications post in a bombed out house in Hillfields. His name was Edwin Brooks (Ted) he and his family including my mother lived in the police house on Hinckley Rd., Walsgrave.
Mandy Hall Tuck
My dad aged 81 born 1934, remembers very well. The Germans were always bombing, aged 7 no different from any other night as he was a young chap. He remembers his dad Leslie Albert Hall taking him down the next day on their bicycles to see the city burning. Many fires and many roads were blocked off due to bomb craters. My dad now lives in South Africa.
Andrew J Chandler
I have my mother's recollections. They were recorded in 'The Walsgrave History Project' in the mid-eighties. The Blitz is also why I now live in Hungary. My wife is from Coventry's twin town of Kecskemét, and we met on a teachers' exchange programme in 1989.
Nobby Clarke
My Dad (91) lived in Lower Ford St and when he got back home from the shelter the next morning he found a hole in his bedroom ceiling and an unexploded incendiary bomb on his bed. The warden came and put it in a bucket of water and took it away!.
Denise White
My ex husband never knew his father. He was only about 16 months old when his dad died. His dad was on air warden duty in Radford Rd Coventry. He'd gone up to the local church to check it out and a bomb went off. My husband's mother searched for him for three weeks before she eventually found which hospital her poor husband was in. He was barely recognisable as he was so badly burnt. The courageous man hung on until his wife found him and visited and then he died. His name was James White. Married to Lilian White, who ran a library and later a toy shop in Radford Rd.