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Just one more memory before this enterprise closes down.

After experiencing the Bristol blitzes my father decided we should seek the safety of the Gloucestershire countryside. Poor father he didn't know that the Germans had finished bombing Bristol. It wasn't his fault because Hitler had not had the courtesy of informing him: a very rude man. Hitler, not my dad. Just two memories of those years which are linked. We would sometimes abandon lessons to go out as a class to pick rosehips. They contained lots of vitamin C I think which was in short supply; no oranges etc. But once we were asked to bring in our conkers to help win the war. We were told they could be used to manufacture glucose. Call me an old cynic but I doubt this. I guess it was just an exercise to booste our morale. I'm sure we would still have won the war conkerless. Ah well! It was a very long time ago now.

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