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Letter from Rosa Brown to her daughters relating to Zeppelin raids on Hornsea, annotated 'Gladys and I were staying in the Hornsea on the first raid by zeppelins in the Great War', c.1914
Undated letter from World War II from Rosa Brown describing the bombing raids on Hull and evacuation 'we have 2,000 billeted in Beverley', 'They have been dropping flares, we think, over Leconfield aerodrome & a big new gun is just shooting at them'
Undated letter from World War II from Gladys Brown describing a raid in Beverley 'About 6.15 we had a teriffic noise - windows & doors shook & we did too! An enemy plane or enemy planes flew down from the clouds & just cleared the roof of the house - machine gunned the road & made an enormous row'
Typewritten copy of undated letter written in 1940 by Gladys Brown giving 'an extract from life of the inhabitants of a small town in England' (original deposited in the Imperial War Museum) |