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familyrice
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Continuing Little Ickford
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Civilian
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A4446380
Contributed on:听
13 July 2005

We were very happy on the Farm and helped
By collecting eggs. milking cows etc.we were very well looked after. I think in 1941 we then went to a mining village named
Shirebrook in Nottinghamshire Where our mother was a housekeeper in a Catholic prebytery. Interestly Roy Hattersley Father
was the Parish priest there prior to resigning and marrying his mother.We were billeted in a house on the village market
square with a lovely family named I think
Rowe.We aquired cycles and rode all over the
Peak district,Chesterfield,Matlock,Bolsover
etc.At this point I regret that later we
never met any of the kind families who looked after us so well and I hope somehow
this record may reach their families an d descendants.In 1942 we left school at the age of fourteen and returned to London.
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Posted on: 15 July 2005 by familyrice

Our mother set up another family house
in Sidcup.My first job at 14 was at a
Bombsight factory in Camberwell called
E.R.Watts & Son.At this time we were
engulfed in the second blitz.following
an illness I was interviewed and accepted into the Civil Service and
commenced employment in the Admiralty,
in The Fleet Air Arm section and remained there until War ended.
I am aware that many children had very
unhappy times and were often badly
treated. As far as we were concerned,
the families we spent our time with
were the most kind and hospitable people you could ever find. B.S.Rice

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