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I was at school in Kent during the war and one of my memories is of going to school for mornings only because of the bombing. On the way to school we would pick up shrapnel, which was sometimes still warm, and swap it in the playground for cigarette cards.
We would also look for round holes in the ground and, from that, we could tell that there was a bomb underneath.

I can also remember that chained to each lamppost was a metal dustbin, in which was put food scraps and this was used to feed the pigs.

As we had no television in those days part of our entertainment was to stand in the garden and watch the searchlights looking for the enemy aircraft.

Due to the lack of fruit and sweets if we got on the right side of the lady, who owned the greengrocer鈥檚 on the corner, she would sell us a marmalade orange, which we thought was wonderful.

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