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I was in greengrocery - supplying factory canteens and so on. I was classified as Grade 3 - weighed nine stone and had a hernia - warned not to lift anything heavy! The Army had taken over the Technical College in the Butts: every Monday we collected one hundred tons of potatoes - we had to carry two tons of them in one hundred weight bags up four flights of stairs! I remember trying to drive round the bomb craters in the roads. We went to the shop in Crampers Fields, Radford - it had only opened in the August - it was completely gone. Mr. Harper, the boss, said "Look after the place, you two." We got an electric van, loaded it up with stuff, drove round and sold it to all the people who were looking for food.
I never went to the shelter. I used to firewatch at the Market where Mr. Thornton was the Fire Officer - my mate used to say "I'm off up to the Queen's - if he rings up, tell him I'm on me rounds." I've put out incendiaries on the roof with sandbags. Me and the wife's brother got an old chap who was trapped out - another bomb dropped nearby, but it never went off.

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