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Some more about my much loved wartime home.The old place named old Sussex Guest House was empty from out break of war,as German lady was interned on Isle of MAN.my Mother found it and bought it during 1943,it was in a bad state,hard for a young woman now on her own,and myself at Worthing High SCHOOL.Wechanged the name of restaurant and guest house,6 rooms upstairs,to The Smugglers,as mother heard from Mr Attenbury Postmaster and Grocer opposite that in the previous centuary Squire or Captain Trelawney of Trelawneys Cottage along theroad,used to go in the Ale house as it was then and yarn about his smuggling days abroard,there is no evidence that the old seadog carried on any activities from there ,but thats where the name came from in 1943.Hard work for mother in day serving the troops and for me when I got in from school.Danny and his mate painted the outside walls cream ,the windows and doorwere black.Danny fell off the ladder as he was somewhat drunk ,but good hearted.They finished painting early on the morning their regiment moved out.mother had a letter from young Danny after the war.Times were also sad my cat got caught in a iron leg trap in the nursery behind the Smugglers,I had the task of taking her to vets for months but Toto was eventually put to sleep.Her ginger son Doodlebug was half grown but may have been looking for her,so I lost him also,knocked down by a bus in West st.We were so busythe war was coming to a very cold close I remember trying to keep th fires going to keep the various rooms heated,the milk was delivered by horse van from Highfield and Oaklands Dairy.The service women came for ninepenny baths,the troopsfor eggs and baconand literally buckets of tea,the Traisnel family came from St Peterport Gurnsey as evacuees,sgt Taisnel was in the camp.we accomodated several officers wives and aunts.Cpt.Wakley and Cpt. Ubilinski,also Russian lawyer who was with sometroopswho had been captured by us,he said that if they were made to go back to Russia while Stalin was still in power,they would be shot,I believe Macmillan gave the order tosend them back,I have seen mention of it somewhere,the educated lawyer who had practised in Russia,said he would have to kill himself or try to jump ship,I often thought of his plight.Also there were survivors from overseas Nazi camps a young man came in and told us he had been selected to live ,because he played the violi,he would not be parted from it.So many lives crisscrossed in our place of refuge in wartime,as a frontline spectator and waitress I witnessed it all and have not forgotten,Rosemary for Rememberance

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