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15 October 2014
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Essay 1 of 7 - Early Days

In the Infants School the playground was shared by both sexes, but of course the boys and girls toilets...

Essay 2 of 7 - The Blitz

One night there was a shout from someone to the effect that a batch of incendiary bombs had landed in about...

Essay 3 of 7 - Wartime Childhood

We made ‘carts’ from lengths of wood and old pram wheels or sometimes ball-races originally...

Essay 4 of 7 - Food and Drink

At regular intervals a ‘bin-man’ would arrive at your place of work, relieve you of your picked...

Essay 5 of 7 - Respite, then Doodlebugs

Germany had started the V1 Flying Bomb or the Doodle-Bug offensive. The doodle-bugs were high explosive...

Essay 6 of 7 - Evacuation

In a few days, the time for our evacuation arrived, and Mum, Rodney, Brenda and I, with our suitcases,...

Essay 7 of 7 - War’s End

This meant that significantly fewer flying bombs or V1 devices were launched against S. E. England; however...

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