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We came back to Reading in 1941, I was around six or seven at the time. I went to Alfred Sutton Junior school. Miss Wallridge was the headmistress. Our teacher loked like a giant, but she was so gentle with us. We all used to have a sleep in the afternoon at school. Over the back of the school there was a racetrack and they turned it into allotments and the school had a patch as part of dig for victory. All the kids and to do a bit of digging and planting. We used to go scrumping as well. We used to have to go to the air raid shelters and do the drill but we were lucky there weren't that many raids. We used to hear them going over our heads at night; we could hear continuous droning sounds so we knew it was the Germans. We had brick air raid shelters on 88 Brighton Road- just two doors from Harriss' Bakery. Beautiful bread rolls.
Me and Peter (my little brother) used to go to Anderson Baptist Church, for sea scouts and sunday school.

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