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Readers' favourite photographs, songs and recipesSnapshot: A bomb just missed my motherSeventy-three years ago, my mother, Dorothy Arthur, was 15 in this snapshot in her garden in Duncan Road, Southsea. Just three years later, the second world war came to town. What happened on 14 November is told by her:"On Thursday evening the air-raid warning went, and at about 10pm we could hear the familiar drone of a German plane overhead, circling round and round. I wanted to go to bed but my room was ove...

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