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I spent my world war two years at school in High Wycomb, Buckinghamsire. I was 8 years old and a pupil at Priory Road primary school when the war was declared. Within days heavy equipment arrived in order to dig up the playing field and provide us with a bomb shelter.

The shelters were soon completed and we had to practice an air raid drill. Upon continuous ringing of the school handbell promoted by the town air raid siren we would troop down to our subteranian likely hoods.

I had an important job: water monitor. Every morning I would changethe water in a bottle ready for the possible onslaught of the Nazi bombers. We had many practices which came as welcome relief to the school routine. How the bottle of water would sustain a entombed class of 50 pupils is hard to imagine.

Fortunately the Germans never came, and at the end of the war the shelters were filled in and now only remain in the memories of the classes of 39/45.

The school survies a spelended example of Victorian architrcture ready for its second hundred years.

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