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- Peoples War Team in the East Midlands
- People in story:Ìý
- Elizabeth Hussey
- Location of story:Ìý
- Surrey
- Background to story:Ìý
- Civilian
- Article ID:Ìý
- A4050037
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 11 May 2005
"This story was submitted to the site by the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s Peoples War Team in the East Midlands with Elizabeth Husseys permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions"
I am now 70 years old and brought up in the early days of the war in Surrey. The children of today are educated in small numbers in their classes and in warm buildings. We were in large classes due to some teachers going off to war. If we had an air raid we were taken to a cold, unheated and lighted by candles underground air raid shelter. We were wrapped in blankets supplied by our mothers — we would sit on the benches learning our tables and our ABC and spelling out loud, and were still able to read and write when we left school. One day when I walked to school I hid under a tree and watched an ariel dog fight.
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