YP Letters: Bombing raid that opened a new chapter

From: Martin Berger, Dunstarn Drive, Leeds.
By The Newsroom
Published 16th May 2016, 06:00 BST
London at the height of the Blitz - St Paul's Cathedral became a symbol of hope.London at the height of the Blitz - St Paul's Cathedral became a symbol of hope.
London at the height of the Blitz - St Paul's Cathedral became a symbol of hope.

MAY 11 was the 31st anniversary of the Bradford City stadium disaster when 56 were killed and 265 were injured. A very sad day to remember.

However the night of May 10 and May 11 also marked the 75th aniversary of the greatest air raid on London when the House of Commons was hit and badly burned together with thousands of houses. Some 486 people died and many thousands were injured that night.

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I was away at school in Wiltshire at the time but my parents were in the habit of taking shelter a mile or so away from home every night.

When they returned home in the early hours on May 11, 1941, they found their house and small business badly damaged with their pet cat dead inside.

My father was offered employment in Leeds which was readily acccepted and so my parents moved to the city, taking up rented accomodation in Chapeltown.

I later changed my school to Roundhay School and have been an adopted Yorkshireman ever since.

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