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During the war in 1940 we lived in the Barlow Nickle Jarvis Hotel overlooking the valley at Aberfoyle in the Trossachs. My father was a Lft Col in the Royal Ordinance Corps. At this time he had been given orders to pack the valley with as much ammunitions as he could get hold of. Unfortunately the dockers for some reason or other were on strike, so my father was given the task to persaude them to unload a large American ship full of ammunitions for the British troops. They took some persauding but my father explained to them that it would be their own relatives who would suffer if the troops abroad ran out of supplies. It was then that they decided to break the strike and return to work. Unfortunately unbeknown to us it turned out that the Americans had sent the wrong amunnitions and nothing worked. it was completely useless.
People used to come to our hotel and the valley at weekends to get away from the cities and the bombings, if only they knew that the vally was full of explosives.

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