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Originally Posted by MargaretR
My dad was in the AFS (auxillary Fire Service) and I recall him saying that it was the only house that was bombed round here - all other bombs fell on the moors, which just shows that 'the blackout' was effective. The germans were trying to bomb Howard and Bulloughs and ROF
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There was never any bombing raids on Howard & Bulloughs. The nearest Royal Ordnance Factory was at Chorley.
It was the Germans on the way back from bombing Manchester, clearing the bomb racks, two incendiaries dropped on those houses, I saw them the day after. Chief Officer Crabtree was in charge at the fire.
I used to see and hear the Jerry planes flying over during night, then a few minutes later the sky would be lit up by the search lights around Manchester and all the ack ack guns would start up. A lot of those shells went up to 20,000 feet before they burst, and the fragments from some landed in Accrington, I still have some of those bits of shells.
Retlaw.