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This story was submitted to the People鈥檚 War site by Elaine Stewart of Uckfield Community Learning Centre, a volunteer from 大象传媒 Southern Counties Radio on behalf of June Foote and has been added to the site with her permission. June Foote fully understands the site鈥檚 terms and conditions.

It was 1939, I was four years old and has just listened to the radio to hear that war had been declared with Germany. The very next minute the ack ack guns in Chatham Dockyard started. My Father, who worked at the dockyards said he had to leave to see what was going on and told me and my mother to go across the road to the Butchers Shop to be safe. The reason the Butcher鈥檚 was safer than our house was due to the Meat Store they kept in the basement of the shop (this was before the days of refrigerators). By the time we got there half the people in the street had arrived and we all went down the basement to shelter between the carcasses of animals hanging up to store.

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