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I attended Eller Green Road senior school near Townsend Avenue, but it closed around 1940-41, during the bombing. The classes were split it and allocated to houses were a teacher would come to give the lessons, there were about 10 children in each house. I think the same happened with the junior school too. As we didn鈥檛 have desks it was mostly discussions although we did still get homework. I wasn鈥檛 a full school day we were only there for a few hours as some went in the morning and others in the afternoons. We had to go home for lunch, as there were no school dinners due to rationing. You could hear the bombs dropping through out the day as well as gunfire. The barrage balloons, which were there in the hope that German planes would hit or fly in to them.

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