大象传媒

Posted on the web-site 18/11/05

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I remember going down to the local garage to my father鈥檚 accumulator, for his wireless so he could hear the six o鈥檆lock news. The garage used to charge 6d (pence) a time to re-charge it.

The Air Raid Precaution Officer was the boss! If you were found without your gas mask you were in trouble. We were told that if you were on your way to school and the siren sounded you had to knock at someone鈥檚 door and ask if you could stay until the raid was over.

During the rationing, Mum used to give us banana sandwiches, which were in fact, cooked parsnips with banana essence.

Mum used to go to sewing and knitting bees, which made hats and scarves for the forces.

We didn鈥檛 have computer games or even TV鈥檚, instead we played games like hop scotch and top and whip.

We had double British Summer time, meaning there were no street lights so the evenings were always dark.

I shared a bike with my brother and sister, there were four of us, but if we were cycling at night we used hooded lamps that shone the light downwards rather than ahead.

There were two main types of air raid shelters, the Andersen and the Marrs, we had the Marrs, which was basically a big iron table which we slept under when the raids were bad.

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