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This story was submitted to the Peoples War website by Georgia a pupil from St.Albans Catholic High School in Ipswich on behalf of her Grandmother Wendy Cliff and has been added to the site with her permission.
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I was only 7 when the war started, so I just accepted it when things changed. Even before the war, we didn鈥檛 have all the food we have these days. The only thing that did change was that we never went to bed; we went automatically down to the air raid shelter at the beginning of the war. At first, we used to sleep under the stairs, because under the stairs is the safest place in the house. The only one that used to be worried was our dog because he used to shake. I was evacuated to Leicster. We all went down to the station and waited. When we got to Leicster, we went to the Odeon cinema and I was sitting in the front row with my mother and my brother and somebody came along ad took us. We had only been there two nights and a bomb dropped so we came home. The srange thing was that Leicster was in the part of England where they were building all the things for the was- the tanks. The Germans knew that and bombed us, so we came home. We had to take our gas masks with us. I took mine o the bus to school and every week, I left it behind on the bus, so I had to go to lost property very often.

When the main bombs started to fall in about 1943, the doodlebugs started. As soon as the light went out on the back of a doodlebug, you knew it was going to come down. The worst bit after that was the V2鈥檚. They used to take off from Holland. They were going to London. There was always great excitement when a plane came across and a parachutist came out. People would follow to see where they came down and guard him.

We were allowed an extra 2 pints of milk a day because my father had a stomach upset, which was an awful lot of milk. I never saw a banana and you could get oranges if you were a child. We grew a lot of vegetables and we kept chickens, but foxes would attack them.

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