Norwich 1942

I was in the Jenny Lind Hospital (for children) having another operation on my right foot (it was a minor form of club foot). I was five and a half years old. In the middle of the night Nurse Abbey woke me up and carried me down the long corridor, out of the front door and into the underground air raid shelter. She laid me on a bed and I could hear lots of explosions. I learnt later that this was the heaviest bombing that Norwich experienced during WW2. I remember no other details except that we children were allowed no visitors at all, and this rule applied until I was 16 and went to the adult's hospital for the last operation on my foot. I wonder what happened to Nurse Abbey?

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