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- Croft Castle WW2 event
- People in story:听
- Maureen Wright
- Location of story:听
- Norfolk
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A2870273
- Contributed on:听
- 27 July 2004
I was born in 1934 so my memories are as a child, the gas mask which we had to carry everywhere to school etc. The first time we had to go into the dugout in the school field, I walked in my sleep and fell downstairs. No bananas, ice creams and not many sweets. We had slips etc made from parachute material.
I also remember being scared as I walked home from school by the local Home Guard hiding behind the hedge.
I lived in Norfolk in a small village between Norwich and Yarmouth and we had an Anderson Shelter and every night if there were air raids we slept on a mattress downstairs.
Both Norwich and Yarmouth were heavily bombed especially Norwich because of a Bolton and Paul鈥檚 works. Memories of houses with their walls demolished and their rooms open to the sky with beds and furniture left exposed.
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