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In 1940 when I was a child on the family farm a German plane dropped 6 bombs, one fell on Mintridge, our farm, the others on adjoining farms. No one was hurt but Watkins, our neighbour, got a terrible cricked neck and was dosing in a chair for about a week.
My father worked the farm which was 270 acres. Land girls helped with the thrashing and potato picking. He grew potatoes for the first time in 1940 and had to learn all the ins and outs. At the time folks had to grow either sugar beet or potatoes. Until then we'd chiefly been farming grassland or livestock. One of my father's jobs was to go and tell other farmers in the village what percentage to plough up for grain. He had a bit of authority because he'd been on local War Agricultural Committee in WW1. He was 50 when I was born in 1931. Some POWs (German and Italian) came from a hostel in Bromyard to work on the farm too. The Germans worked very hard.

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