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Wartime Memories.
The roof of the Town Hall was set alight by incendiary bombs in the heavy air-raids on Manchester and surrouding areas in late December 1940. I remember seeing it, being a young boy at the time. Sale is about six miles from Manchester centre.
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RE: RE: Wartime Memories.
I also remember that fire at the town hall. The fire staation at that time was just at the back of the town hall and the story that circulated afterwards was that all the fire engines were deployed elswhere that night and air raid wardens were sent with stirrup pumps to put out the blaze. If the story is true it must have been a hopeless task.
Comment from Name withheld on Monday, 10th March 2008.