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During the war I was an evacuee.
I was still a schoolgirl then you see.
I visited Suffolk, Berkshire too
Yorkshire,Cornwall, and the sea was blue.
In Suffolk we picked pounds of sloes
for wine, so we could all drown our woes.
But Newquay was my favourite place.
that lovely sand and sea and space!
Apart from school what did we do
to help our country get through?
We worked with potatoes and that was tough! as thistles can be very rough.
At first we palnted them in rows
and then we worked very hard with hoes
to hack down all the weeds that grew, although I'm sure we left a few!
On the cliffs the locals said "No"
"You'll never get potatoes to grow,
nothing will grow in that poor soil"
We proved them wrong, after much hard toil.
How gratefully we harvested our crops.
We really felt we were the tops.
Now, if you don't believe it's true
I've got a photo to show you.
My friends and I in 41
Working in Cornwall and spuds by the ton!

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