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The Sweet Shop

by WMCSVActionDesk

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People in story:听
Beatrice Samuels
Location of story:听
Yardley Wood
Background to story:听
Civilian
Article ID:听
A4907883
Contributed on:听
10 August 2005

This story was submitted to the People鈥檚 War site by Jabulani Chwaula from WM CSV Action Desk on behalf of Beatrice Samuels and has been added to the site with her permission. Beatrice Samuels fully understands the sites terms and conditions.

In 1942 there was a very old mill and a pond on the Priory road in Yardley wood.

A great discovery was made one day, when my friend and I were walking round the area near the mill. We realised we were walking on an area where Lorries dumped stuff from bombed buildings in Birmingham. Under our feet were crushed sweets all burned together.

We realised we鈥檇 made a wonderful find and put on guard duty to keep an eye on the spot.
A metal hammer separated the sweets which we re-bagged and sold at school for half a penny at the time.

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