SURVIVING THE SHEFFIELD BLITZ: 90 Year Old Survivor Tells Her Story
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- SURVIVING THE SHEFFIELD BLITZ
Blitz survivor Mavis Turner was just 10 years old when German air raids hit Sheffield in December 1940.
She sat down with us to tell her story. From the horror of seeing a house explode, to the joy of hearing that WWII had ended. The harrowing account she gives of what Sheffielders went through on those nights is a real eye opener to just how bad it was.
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I’m sad to say that Mavis, the wonderful lady in this video, passed away a short while after this video was filmed.
She will be sadly missed by all who knew her. I hope this video will provide some comfort to her family who can watch back in years to come and listen to her amazing stories once again.
R.I.P Mavis
Lucid throughout. Lovely lady, thanks for introducing her to us all.
Bless her. My Grandad was ARP in Rotherham. We have no idea what they had to live through.
My beautiful Nan. Thank you for getting this interview before she passed this week. She was an amazingly my person.
I heard the sad news last week.
So very sorry for your immense loss. She was a wonderful lady. I grew up across from her so have known her many years.
I’m glad this video helps in some way and keeps her memory (and her memories) alive.
Condolences to you and all the family.
What a lovely lady. I’m so sorry for your loss Kate
RIP x
My mother was around 4 years younger. Her stories are very familiar to what I grew up listening to
It was so lovely listening to your lovely nan talking. I wish I had done this with my Great Nan before she passed away.
My great nan was from Sheffield and only a few years older than Mavis so it was like talking to my nan and listening to her stories from the old Sheffield days and the war.
My nan was Nellie Turner and looked like Mavis so much.
RIP Mavis
I just listened to this very articulate intelligent amazing lady , My dear mother is 90 years old and also went through the Sheffield blitz ,Mum was a year younger than this lady so also a very young child , She lived on Fitzwilliam street just off the Moor in the city centre. Her home got bombed which wiped out the whole side of the opposite houses in mums street and many were killed , mum was in the cellar with her sisters and Mum & stepdad , ( her father died when she was six weeks old ) her mother ( before having children was on stage and was a dancer & performer with her close school friend Gracie Fields but gave it all up to her married and have a family ) ( But that’s another story ! ) anyway my mum was in the cellar with her sisters and a Bomb dropped that shook the house and blew out all the windows , mums shoes were blown off her feet !! even though she was stood up in the cellar , an ARP warden lifted mum out of her cellar with broken glass all over and told her “ Don’t look “ of course as she was 8 or 9 years old she couldn’t help but look , and saw deceased people , trams on fire on the Moor , buildings on fire .. horrendous for a child ! So I understand this lady’s feelings of that awful tummy feeling .. anxiety!! My mum has never liked fireworks, the sound reminds her , so when we were kids my Dear dad used to take us to bonfire and firework displays without our mum which is totally understandable. Mum now has dementia and sometimes struggles to remember people or things , but NEVER forgets her memories of being a child in war , war is evil ! 😢poor mum had to go to Bents Green school for two years after the war because her nerves were so bad ! Then lost her mummy to cancer when she was 11 years old 😔 Mum had a hard childhood but she’s still with us and we love her dearly !
Fascinating Joe, thanks so much for making this film and please thank Mavis. She's fabulous and we really enjoyed listening to her stories.
Thankyou Mavis for your story.
Fascinating.
Precious lady xxx
Amazing memory. Amazing woman . This generation were hard as nails. Nothing seemed to bother them they just soldierd on .and never complained (shall i swear)
So cute and from an innocent tome when people had manners still and ladies still wore gloves and were ladies .
Coukd listen to this woman txlk for hours
So sorry for the news of this ladies passing .Thank you for making this record of what happened during the blitz. Hearing from people who witnessed things first hand ads so much to the history .Condolences to the ladies family.
What an amazing lady and so fascinating to hear the tales from someone who lived through it all. Those people were so brave I’m so proud of sheffielders ❤
Wonderful
Oh my what a wonderful, moving and enthralling presentation. You just have to love Mavis, such a wonderful memory and told so beautifully detailed and yet poignant. What a wonderful generation they were, exhibiting such resilience and stoicism against what seemed insurmountable odds. The population of our wonderful City gave so much in so many ways, without thought of self, so that the Country's final victory was assured. May God bless you Mavis.
Excellent viewing!!
another fascinating video joe, keeping sheffield history alive, i could listen to mavis all night.
keep up the god work ;)
I have so many memories of being sat in that exact spot in Nanna Mavis’ lounge room.
I also have my other Nan’s war stories as an mp3, it’s just as interesting.
Brilliant oral social history. The greatest generation. I worked out what percentage of my maternal Grandmothers life was occupied by World Wars and it was 13.3%. She lived to be 75. She worked in the Castle Market then the Sheaf. I chose her only because the two World Wars affected her more than my other Grandparents. Her Father was killed in the Ypres Salient in 1915 and her brother lost his life in the Tunisian Campaign in 1943. I remember her speaking about such things as a kid earwigging. Just wish I'd ask my Grandparents more about their lives.
As far as i know this is an amateur interviewer showing us how an interview should be done. The emphasis is on Mavis and her story, touching and very moving. The interviewer treats Mavis with respect and lets her tell us her story without interrupting her.
My mother lived through the war and the stories she told were sometimes horrific and sometimes amusing. It was obviously a very strange time for everyone and i have huge respect for all the people who lived through it.
Thank you for this wonderful upload and congratulations on creating a marvellous account of this period directly from a genuinely lovely lady.
Thankyou! Amateur indeed!
Thanks for watching
My apologies. I assumed that this was an amateur enthusiast channel rather than a professional set up. We are so used to so called professional interviewers asking questions and then talking over the interviewee. This interview is the opposite of the norm and is refreshing for that.
I congratulate you on your content and your way of working.
I did not use the term amateur in a derogatory sense as you can tell from the rest of my comments. I apologise unreservedly if this caused any offence as this was not my intention.
Once again thank you for the upload.
@@robertstroud7081 no need to apologise Robert at all I did not take it the wrong way at all. Proud to be amateur!
Thankyou for your kind words, wishing you a very merry Christmas.
@@History0114 thank you, and a merry Christmas to you too
Very interesting account of the Sheffield Blitz.i can remember my late Father told me.my Grand dad worked in Rotherha-Tinsley at a firm called Abashams a Steelworks.the bombing was very bad,Grand Dad hat to craws on his hands and knees at the side of river don to keep cover the best he can.he got home the following afternoon.no mobiles Then.oviously Nan Nan was very pleased indeed.
Brilliant account and such a lovely lady , god bless Mavis
Lovely lady who reminds me of my mum and what they all wen through xxxx
I am 87 and remember the Sheffield blitz quite clearly. When the air-raids sounded mother picked me and my younger brother up and rushed us round to grand-dads air-raid shelter in the next street. I also remember later in life that my mother explained to me that her sister, who was a nurse, was walking home in the evening from work through the bomb damaged city center, and was stepping over dead bodies.
My nan was a similar age in Sheffield during the raids. She said they were in the tin shelter at the bottom of the garden when a bomb landed in their garden. She said it was a dud though and never went off.
My great nana survived the blits
Wonderful memories. I'm so proud of these people who battled through such horrible times.
God has blessed her good spirit. She honours her ancestors and her generations to come. I am so grateful she makes the world a better place. 🙏🏼😇❤️
How interesting 😢
I knew a lady, a friend of my grandmother, who remembered the Zeppelin raids over Sheffield during the First World War. She was interviewed, I believe, by one of the local radio stations. My own mother, born in 1926, recalled her memories of the Second World War in Sheffield. She lived in Glencoe Road with her parents and was bombed out of their home until the property could be made safe. The King and Queen paid a visit and somewhere we have a black and white photograph of their visit amidst the devastation.
My grandad was a young bloke working in the steel works. He lived 7 miles outside the center of Sheffield but remarked on having to step over the bodies to get into work in the aftermath.
Thank you Mavis for your story and thank you to History 0114 for this upload, I hope your channel grows. I am from and grew up on the Wybourn and heard of stories of bombs dropping close.
amazing interview!
Aww bless she's lovely 💔😥 and we will not get to the story of a 3rd WW 😭 I love listening to stories like this 💔
god bles her 🙌
i rember
My dad Tom Scales was a watchman for the German planes coming over .. we were bombed in the Corn Exchange…
Precious lady xxxxx