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Some anonymous contributors from the West Indies told these stories about island life to a volunteer story collector at the Back to Backs event on 24 April 2005.

One lady described how all sorts of metal household objects as well as railings etc. were loaded on to lighters [flat bottomed boats]because they didn鈥檛 have a deep water harbour. As a child she used to watch great magnets picking up as much as it could grab and there would be old bedsteads and pots and pans hanging off them and she said that they felt they were doing their bit to help England.

One lady said her headmaster would go to town to bring them news of the war.

Another man said people came to blast the metal out of the local windmill. He watched them load the dynamite and he was told to go and wave a red flag at the end of the road until he heard a big bang and when he came back the metal was all in one heap ready to send to England.

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