Originally Posted by
since41
I don't no what the fuss is about I slept through it all, probably in the air raid shelter in the middle of the street (Marina Avenue Chilwell)
The triple brick structure was still there until the early fifty's when it was knocked down and magically disappeared in multiple garden paths before the council came to pick it up. Also most people had nisson hut shelters in their gardens too.
A bomb dropped at the end of the street and there were cracks in the brickwork of our house from the explosion.
My mother worked at Chilwell Depot packing ammo and bombs stuff during the second world war.