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My father鈥檚 back garden was his pride and joy, he used to grow veg and flowers. My mother was very upset when after father had died they came to put in an Air Raid Shelter made of tin, they dug up all the garden and just threw the soil on top of the shelter.

We were all issued with gas masks, even the babies who had to have a bag into which air was pumped.

I married in 1940 and at that time lived on a farm. Most of the men went to war but key men had to stay back. The farms kept going by bringing in the Land Army Girls, who did all the general farm labouring jobs. They soon learnt to milk cows and drive tractors. Petrol was rationed but could be used for agricultural work.

I remember the Home Guard in our village were told to guard the park as an unexploded bomb had been found, they guarded the entrance to the park all night and the next morning found that the 鈥淏omb鈥� was infact a stone ball from the top of the gate post.

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