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Every day after school, I, together with friends went to the Tip Top Bakery which was on the main road being used by troops on their way to the coast prior to D-Day. This was a stopping place for the troops and we handed out tea and buns etc. On one occasion an armoured vehicle struck a lamp post almost demolishing it. When I was in the A.T.S. during l947 I was stationed in Welbeck Abbey. In Welbeck Abbey there is a lovely ballroom where our weekly dances were held. One of my dancing partners was the young man Chick Henwood and during the course of one of our conversations he asked me where my home was. I told him, and he related how he had almost demolished a lamp post when he temporarily lost control of his vehicle - I reminded him that I was the one who had given him his mug of tea. I believe that Chick came from Cornwall and I often wonder what became of him and so many of the friends I made during those years.

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