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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]In the latest edition of the Heanorian (the magazine for old students of Heanor Grammar School), Alec Grace offers this account: "I remember one night (in 1942 I think), a Heinkel 111 dropped three bombs near Langley Mill. The last of the three fell in the field opposite our house on Lower Dunstead Road. All the windows were blown out, and the front door was blasted off its hinges, across the hall and onto the staircase. The bedroom ceiling fell in, onto my bed. In daylight we went to the crater in the field. A herd of cows had been eviscerated in the explosion, and their entrails were everywhere. So far as I remember, we were sent off to school as though nothing had happened." [/quote]
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Langley Mill Bombed during WW2?
replied on: 2/13/2005 6:25:36 PM

In the latest edition of the Heanorian (the magazine for old students of Heanor Grammar School), Alec Grace offers this account:

"I remember one night (in 1942 I think), a Heinkel 111 dropped three bombs near Langley Mill. The last of the three fell in the field opposite our house on Lower Dunstead Road. All the windows were blown out, and the front door was blasted off its hinges, across the hall and onto the staircase. The bedroom ceiling fell in, onto my bed. In daylight we went to the crater in the field. A herd of cows had been eviscerated in the explosion, and their entrails were everywhere. So far as I remember, we were sent off to school as though nothing had happened."

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