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- threecountiesaction
- People in story:Ìý
- Frank Liptrot
- Location of story:Ìý
- Hitchin, Hertfordshire
- Background to story:Ìý
- Civilian
- Article ID:Ìý
- A6544578
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 30 October 2005
This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Dorothy MacKenzie for Three Counties Action on behalf of Frank Liptrot and has been added to the site with his permission. The author fully understands the site’s terms and conditions.
Civilians shared the dangers and privations of the Second World War as well as members of the armed forces.
One incident in 1943, illustrates this. I was in lodgings with a lady who had relatives on the other side of the town in Hitchin. In the streets in various places, the council had placed ‘pig bins’ for residents to deposit potato peel and similar refuse suitable for feeding pigs.
In the blackout one night, my landlady went to visit her relatives — a walk of about three quarters of a mile. Her visit over, she set off for home again. The landlady’s vision on emerging from the well-lit house was not adjusted to the almost total darkness and she collided with one of the pig bins and had a nasty fall with a black eye of an alarming kind as well as various bruises. A neighbour came to her rescue and escorted her back home.
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