Eveswell

A Memory of Newport.

My father, John, was a doctor at his surgery/house, Corporation Road and I and my brother John plus mother and father were in the shelter when the mine was dropped. I remember a discussion later about loss of panel patients (Lysaghts and Mannesment) in that street - mother kept the books! I well remember the troops camping on the rugby pitch prior to D-day. I went out one morning and all the troops were gone. It took me many years to realise the they must have gone south to the ports just prior to D-day. Before that we kids were wonderfully entertained by "shows " on the pitch particularly the Indian mounted troops doing their peg dancing .

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