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War years

I lived in Trafalgar House by the Harbour of Ilfracombe during the war years. There was a pill box in our front garden and there were also pill boxes at Cheyne, quay head and one behind the Landmark theatre which was ones the site of the Ilfracombe Hotel.
The slip in front of the Britannia Hotel there were concrete tank traps on the other slip way were iron post which could be placed across in case of an invasion
On the cove and in front of the Arlington Hotel were static water tanks for emergency either for fire our bombing.
Our air raid shelter for the Quay was behind Hancock鈥檚 Garage (which is now the bus station).
When I was at church school our air raid shelter was The Tunnels Beach where we used to practise going in the tunnel carrying our gas masks.
I remember one Sunday morning a mine was washed up on the rocks under Hillsborough and exploded breaking a lot of the windows on The Quay.
At Rapparee Cove there were two guns in placements and two search lights they would practice firing on a Sunday morning and the searchlights at night, which I could see from my bedroom.
In Trafalgar House, our two down stairs rooms where used for storing flour and grain. The pier was used for a coal store.
R.A.F occupied the Britannia Hotel. Had three rescue boats in the Harbour.
Yanks occupied the headlands Hotel. They parked three vechiles along Grannville Road and had three petrol from Hancock garage (bus station).
Fishermen with boats in the harbour had to take all there oars out of their boats before night-time.

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