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This story was submitted to the People's War site by Holly Fuller of Leicestershire Library Services on behalf of Mr Derek Allen and has been added to the site with his permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.

I was 10 years old and living in Elwell Avenue, Barwell, when the war started. We had an air raid shelter at the bottom of our garden. I can remember being in it when a bomb fell on Kirkwell Road. The next day we went to where the bomb fell and dug up bits of shrapnel. I also remember when an Aeroplane was shot down in Everard鈥檚 Field.

Everyday we had to walk to school with our gas masks, although I started work when I was fourteen. I remember the rationing too, like only getting 2oz of chocolate and having to eat spam and there being coupons for your clothes.

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