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I stayed at home and was in the Land Army.
I did enjoy it until we had to go to the fields.
We prepared the vegetables and fed the pigs - we used swill and boiled it up.
If there was a tiny pig we would take it home and put it in a basket next to the fire.
The troops were down at Staunton Hall and they'd have dances in the recreational room.
I'd like dancing but I wasn't very good at it.
My mother made some good friends and some would come over.
One was from where they made pottery and I still have one of the pots we were given.

When the snow was very deep the prisoners of war would be brought out to dig it away.

In the village there was one chap who would go to Melton Mowbray and he'd bring us back boxes of dented tins and cheese and that's how we got most of our food.

Somebody living next door to my Grandma was pregnant and when war was declared she fainted.

Dad worked at the pipe works at Newbold.

We used to have lots of parties. We did folk dancing.
We did have good times.

The worst night I remember was when Coventry was bombed and you could see the lights.

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