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I lived during the second war in the country on a farm at the Portway, which is between Evesham and Birmingham.

Because of our location we were not very involved in the bombing, but we did have a search light in a field on a farm a short distance from ours; also they had an ack-ack gun. We did, from time to time, have the German fighter planes fly over us and one night they dropped some bombs which fortunately landed in a field away from us.

I can remember my father and brother coming home from the market in Henley-in-Arden and telling us that a German plane had machine gunned the market and they all had to dive under the benches.

At the at time I went to school in Birmingham and every time the sirens went we had to go into the cellar of a shop nearby until the all clear was sounded. The bus I travelled on from the Portway to Birminghamn along the main road, had a gas cylinder on the back which drove the engine.

There was also an Airforce barracks at Wythall and we used to meet the men from there at the Village Hall on Saturdays to dance.

From time to time there were concerts held at Beoley Village Hall in aid of getting money to buy all sorts of things for the armed forces, plus going round the area collecting from door to door.

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