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Ruby Parsons, Marge Clarke, Julie Stanness, June Barker, Ken Mantle and Mercy Vaughan

We can remember as children collecting acorns to feed to the pigs, taking them down to a shop in Ludlow and receiving 1d a bag. If the boys helped take them round the back they were paid more. This worked well because out the back there was a hole in the fence where they could pass bags to the girls who would bring them back and get paid again.

We can remember walking past the American convoys on Henley Road and being thrown sweets and chewing gum.

Only a few stray bombs were dropped over Ludlow, but we remember one in the churchyard and being charged 3d to go and see the crater. At the infants school we were made to sit under tables if there was a danger of an air raid. From Clee Hill we could see the bombing of Birmingham and were able to watch the dog fights in the sky.

We couldn鈥檛 get stockings so we used to rub builder鈥檚 sand into our legs, but if it was too hot it used to burn. The other alternative was to use camp coffee, which would become very sticky when things warmed up.

Down Sandpits Avenue they used to keep pigs in the garden. The butcher would come up and slaughter them, but on some occasions the pig would escape during the process and run down the Avenue with the men chasing them. The children would be given the bladder to blow up and use as a football. On VE Day they held a street party with everybody bringing chairs out and to make sure none went missing they all had the house number underneath them. We can remember the partying all day and being able to have lights on.

There was a prisoner of war camp on the street and you often used to see Italians and Germans walking through the town on their own and they were very popular with the girls. They were used mainly to work on the farms.

Ruby Parsons, Marge Clarke, Julie Stanness, June Barker, Ken Mantle and Mercy Vaughan

We can remember as children collecting acorns to feed to the pigs, taking them down to a shop in Ludlow and receiving 1d a bag. If the boys helped take them round the back they were paid more. This worked well because out the back there was a hole in the fence where they could pass bags to the girls who would bring them back and get paid again.

We can remember walking past the American convoys on Henley Road and being thrown sweets and chewing gum.

Only a few stray bombs were dropped over Ludlow, but we remember one in the churchyard and being charged 3d to go and see the crater. At the infants school we were made to sit under tables if there was a danger of an air raid. From Clee Hill we could see the bombing of Birmingham and were able to watch the dog fights in the sky.

We couldn鈥檛 get stockings so we used to rub builder鈥檚 sand into our legs, but if it was too hot it used to burn. The other alternative was to use camp coffee, which would become very sticky when things warmed up.

Down Sandpits Avenue they used to keep pigs in the garden. The butcher would come up and slaughter them, but on some occasions the pig would escape during the process and run down the Avenue with the men chasing them. The children would be given the bladder to blow up and use as a football. On VE Day they held a street party with everybody bringing chairs out and to make sure none went missing they all had the house number underneath them. We can remember the partying all day and being able to have lights on.

There was a prisoner of war camp on the street and you often used to see Italians and Germans walking through the town on their own and they were very popular with the girls. They were used mainly to work on the farms.

Ruby Parsons, Marge Clarke, Julie Stanness, June Barker, Ken Mantle and Mercy Vaughan

We can remember as children collecting acorns to feed to the pigs, taking them down to a shop in Ludlow and receiving 1d a bag. If the boys helped take them round the back they were paid more. This worked well because out the back there was a hole in the fence where they could pass bags to the girls who would bring them back and get paid again.

We can remember walking past the American convoys on Henley Road and being thrown sweets and chewing gum.

Only a few stray bombs were dropped over Ludlow, but we remember one in the churchyard and being charged 3d to go and see the crater. At the infants school we were made to sit under tables if there was a danger of an air raid. From Clee Hill we could see the bombing of Birmingham and were able to watch the dog fights in the sky.

We couldn鈥檛 get stockings so we used to rub builder鈥檚 sand into our legs, but if it was too hot it used to burn. The other alternative was to use camp coffee, which would become very sticky when things warmed up.

Down Sandpits Avenue they used to keep pigs in the garden. The butcher would come up and slaughter them, but on some occasions the pig would escape during the process and run down the Avenue with the men chasing them. The children would be given the bladder to blow up and use as a football. On VE Day they held a street party with everybody bringing chairs out and to make sure none went missing they all had the house number underneath them. We can remember the partying all day and being able to have lights on.

There was a prisoner of war camp on the street and you often used to see Italians and Germans walking through the town on their own and they were very popular with the girls. They were used mainly to work on the farms.

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