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As a child during the War i lived with my mother and father, Earnest and Florence Sears.
I wasn't evacuated out of London as part of the Government scheme but spent about nine months with my Grandmother in Clacton-on-Sea during the worst part of the bombing.
Rationing was more of a worry to my mum than me, trying to make sure we had enough to eat, but i did miss sweets and ice cream. My mum queued up for ages once for bananas (only allowed if you had a green child's ration book) I had to ask how to eat it because i didn't remember seeing one before. Eveything that was imported was in very short supply.
My nan at Chelmsford used to grow a lot of vegetables and fruit and also kept rabbits to eat(my mother and i stayed for a while with her and grandad at the beginning of the War)My grandad at Clacton used to grow vegetables as well.
I can remember wearing clothes that had been hand knitted from wool that had been unpicked from something else. My nan used to make rugs out of sacks woven with pieces of material from cut-up old clothes, nothing could be thrown out or wasted.
I went to a catholic school run by nuns then went back to my local school in Walthemstow again. I remember an air raid at school at Clacton when we had to sit in the stone corridor with cushions on our laps to put our faces in if a bomb dropped.

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