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When Swindon was straffed by an enemy pilot
Sheila Povey from The Lawns read the article about Swindon Reference Library and the reference to a Animal Portraits
German aircraft opening fire on the gas works in Iffley Road. She recalls the day.
Lovingly drawn
While a pupil at Commonweal Reed had a very different experi- With all the noise closeby the
School 1939- 1944 we were drilled ence. He worked for Kingshill Co- horse took fright, broke the shafts in pastel or
in what to do in case of an air raid. operative Society and was deliver- to the van and bolted, to be found pencil from
All the pupils had to vacate the ing bread with a horse and van the next day on Mannington rec- your favourite
school premises and disperse to around the streets of Rodbourne. reation ground. photograph.
allocated houses in the vicinity of My friend Pamela Avenell lived
the school, in The Mall and at the time in lffley Road and I can For a free
Goddard Avenue. The school elec- ► ^y - ? $'"!+ remember walking along the cycle brochure, call
tric bell would be rung continu- '' track, seeing the GWR gasometer Vikki Loeber
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On the day this stray aircraft I am not sure of the date, but the
peppered the town with machine Rodbourne Cheney School log,
gun fire, the bell rang and think- ^1 {^•,^p^l which I have had access to, con- Goi V1g away om
ing it was break time, we all spilled t . tains several dates and times raids
out into the quadrangles, only to I .r! took place: 26 November 1940, koI dcky o v-
be shouted at by a furious head- • 3.30pm; 26 March 1941 1.15pm - b utsivvess?.
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