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‘They say Leith got off lightly.. they’re wrong’
THE day began for six-year-old Margaret Redpath like any other. Up at 7.30am, she had her breakfast, dressed in her school clothes and kissed her mum Cathie as she packed Margaret and her brother off to school, waving them off from the door of their Gorgie Road home.
Now, 65 years on, the image of her mum standing with her arm raised and a smile on her face is 71-year-old Margaret Alexander’s most treasured memory. For on July 18, 1940, her mum died when Leith was hit by the bombs of the German Luftwaffe. for more click here
