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Teaching

I was a qualified teacher and I taught a class of 50 boys and girls aged between 7 and 9. An air raid warden was on permanent duty
in the staff room. It was deemed an "Air Raid Post". From time to time we had to evacuate the school into the dug-out air raid shelter in the playing field attached to the school. We spent many hours under the ground trying to learn poetry, spelling and arithmetic tables. A story book and the class register were very important and were never left behind in the classroom. Of course, a bucket was essential!!

An incident during the blitz

On the night of Friday 13th December 1940, after a prolonged air raid, I was evacuated to a house in another part of Sheffield because a parachute bomb had landed in a garden 400 yards down the road. Luckily it was hanging from a branch of a tree. I was only allowed back to the area after the bomb disposal unit had delt with it. This took very many hours.

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