Title
Mrs Beryl Richardson recalls the night of 19th November 1940
Subject
WW2
Description
Mrs Beryl Richardson recalls the night of 19th November 1940 (Leicester Blitz)
Creator
EMOHA70/390
Source
EMOHA
Publisher
EMOHA
Date
3 December 1987
Rights
You may use item in accordance with the licence http://creativecommons.org/licences/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/
Format
.mp3
Language
English
Type
Oral history
Duration
46 seconds
Transcription
[Interviewer: J. Leigh]
Were you in Leicester at all when Leicester was ever bombed?
[Interviewee: Mrs Beryl Richardson]
Yes, yes. It was on a Tuesday, I think it was the Tuesday night, the first bombing we had. My husband and I, that was before he joined the navy, we were going on a darts outing, and although we were not supposed to be allowed in the pub at that age, we went in, and on the way up to Green Lane Road, we saw the flares dropping. No sirens had been off. As we got inside, we saw people drinking beers and what have you. A stick of bombs just dropped, where the first one dropped on the Freemen Hardy and Willis shoe factory in town. The last one fell just across the road from us. It just flung us across to the other side of the pub room. Chairs and tables went over. Beer went over. We ran down to the shelters under the Green Lane School.
Were you in Leicester at all when Leicester was ever bombed?
[Interviewee: Mrs Beryl Richardson]
Yes, yes. It was on a Tuesday, I think it was the Tuesday night, the first bombing we had. My husband and I, that was before he joined the navy, we were going on a darts outing, and although we were not supposed to be allowed in the pub at that age, we went in, and on the way up to Green Lane Road, we saw the flares dropping. No sirens had been off. As we got inside, we saw people drinking beers and what have you. A stick of bombs just dropped, where the first one dropped on the Freemen Hardy and Willis shoe factory in town. The last one fell just across the road from us. It just flung us across to the other side of the pub room. Chairs and tables went over. Beer went over. We ran down to the shelters under the Green Lane School.
Interviewer
Jon Leigh
Interviewee
Mrs Beryl Richardson
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