- Contributed by听
- CSV Action Desk Leicester
- People in story:听
- Anthony Byrne Dakin
- Location of story:听
- Leicester
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A4456343
- Contributed on:听
- 14 July 2005
Half a dozen of us as youngstes would pinch some "twist" from my father. We used to buy a little pipe.
We got herbal tobacco from the chemist and smoked it in the colliseum and we were very sick.
There used to be fights in the centre of Leicester in 1943 between the white Americans and the black Americans.
The military police would throw them in to 'meat wagons'.
'This story was submitted to the People's War Website by Lisa Reeves of CSV Action Desk Leicester on behalf of Anthony Byrne Dakin and has been added with his permission. The author fully understands the sites terms and conditions.'
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