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On several afternoons towards the end of 1943 about harvest time,the girls of Worthing High School were called out of class,I dont remember being told beforehand and had not told my mother. We were sent on the train from Worthing to Durrington,about 3 stops,the authorities must have paid.The area was all fields ,we were given chip baskets,and told to start picking in the rows of beans or peas.Some girls were pretty useless I remember,but my effort was not so bad because we had a smallholding.My mother panicked and phoned the school as I hadnt returned home at usual time.The afternoons work yielded sixpence usually I was glad to be paid anything ,as mother and I were poor as church mice during the war.

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