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- Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2005
- People in story:听
- Christina Folley (Memory of story told by parents)
- Location of story:听
- East end of London
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A4371824
- Contributed on:听
- 06 July 2005
This story has been entered by Shila Nadar of CSV/大象传媒 LONDON on behalf of Christina Folley and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands and accepts the site's terms.
My memory of what my parents told us is that they took all the iron railings down from everyone's gardens, outside their back garden and front gardens. They took them off and then they used them for the war and apparently a lot of them were melted down for the weapons factories to be used to make bullets and guns.
They just came and took the Victorian railings, so they were literally here today and gone tomorrow! You didn't get paid for them - it was your duty to the country!
My father in law actually worked in the gun factory in Enfield where maybe they used my parent's railings!
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