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Coventry Lives summary: Rafferty, Ernie
PA2277/2/164
2 Nov 1999
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Coventry Archives & Research Centre
Interviewee: Ernie Rafferty

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Born Gulson Road Hospital. Parents Coventrians. Hillside, Stoke Heath - council house. "Born upstairs in the attic". One brother. Baby sister died in Anderson shelter. School, Stoke Heath, aged 5 years. Teacher gave out sweets for achievement. Sang rude song about Royals. Still has Coronation mug.

Track 3
1938 - Sunday's - Bell Greem - tram to town centre - Salvation Army band - soap boxes - about war breaking out. Evacuee - 'phony war'. Again evacuated (4 years - and brother) - watched Coventry burn "like standing in heaven looking at hell". Parents OK in bombing. Father - Morris Engines.

Coventry Lives Oral History Project, date of birth: 1930
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