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This story was submitted to the People鈥檚 War site by Hollie and Amber from High Halden Church of England Primary School and has been added to the website on behalf of Rachel Dienst with
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We lived in Forstel Farm, Brook from 1933 and I was eleven years old when the war was declared. The food was rationed, we all had ration books. Here is some of the food that was rationed: Butter, margarine, cheese, sugar, dried fruit, chocolate, hard boiled sweets and lots more (clothes and petrol were rationed as well.) We ate rabbits, chickens and butter from the farm, milk from the cows and eggs that the chickens and ducks had laid.
During the war my mother had four evacuees billeted with us. They came from New Eltham and were Roman Catholics. Every Sunday they went to mass in the Roman Catholic Church in Ashford and they weren鈥檛 allowed to eat or drink before they went.
One winter鈥檚 morning my mother gave Patrick, one of the evacuees, a cup of tea to warm him up. When he came home he said he had to go to confession to confess that he had a drink before he went.
Another time the boy asked my father how he got milk from the cows. My dad, who was a farmer, said he squeezed their horns and pumped their tails and the milk came out. The boy believed him until he really milked the cows!
I was waiting for a bus out side Ashford Boys Grammar School when a Doodlebug flew over and pieces of shrapnel flew off. We tried to take cover, but I wouldn鈥檛 let go of my bowl of dripping.

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