Newlyweds in the War

My husband and I were married on June 6th 1942. He was in the RAF, stationed in Cambridgeshire. He managed to find us somewhere to rent and live, it was a very small cottage with one room downstairs and one room upstairs There was no water tap or electrics and the only water available was from a well on the Village Green, with a bucket that you had to drop down the well on a rope. The very first day I had to draw some water, I put the hook on the bucket handle and let the bucket down the well. When I pulled it up I only had the hook and no bucket. I spent one hour trying to find the bucket and finally managed to hook the bucket on. After 6 months there we moved to Brackly and rented two rooms in a real house - which was heaven after the cottage.

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