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My Granny鈥檚 life in the Second World War

My granny was 6 years old when the war started. She went to stay with her Granny for a year which was sort of like being evacuated but unofficially in Scotland. She never thought any of her family or her would be killed or bombs destroy her home. Nobody my Granny knew personally was killed. She lived near Birmingham then, like I told you before in Northeast Scotland when war was declared. She felt. Rationing (especially sweets!) was a real nuisance but probably good for her health.

She felt the war had very little affect on her family once she had returned from her Granny鈥檚. It was very hard for mothers to feed their families; eggs, fruit and vegetables however helped her mother from their garden. Her parents were affected and listened to the wireless twice a day as a result. Especially Winston Churchill鈥檚 speeches. She felt she played her part in the war by feeding the chickens. The war changed her diet, no wastage and no cars so they made journeys by train and bike.

Her biggest memory of war was the Coventry Birmingham raid, there were lots of planes. The gunning had to stop firing because they got to hot and the sky went red three quarters of the way round and her dad said if the other quarter went red then they were in big trouble. When there was bombing she would put on a fleecy suit over her pyjamas and sleep in an air raid shelter in her back garden with her family, cat and dog! Her mum was an air raid warden. There were two billeted workers staying with them. My granny got through the war with just a few scrapes and bruises but some people were not as fortunate.

Erin Martin

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