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- Worcestershire Libraries and Information Service
- People in story:听
- Eric Giles
- Location of story:听
- Surrey
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A3125189
- Contributed on:听
- 13 October 2004
The wood at the end of our street was officially a bird sanctuary, and it was fenced off with ash fencing to prevent access. The council men fought a losing battle as local kids made holes to get into the wood to make camps, play chase, climb trees and other games. One of the favorites as the war progressed was the hunt to increase our schrappnel collections, small pieces of metal produced by exploding bombs and anti aircraft guns. At night during the height of the 'Blitz' gunfire disturbed our rest and local rumour had it that anti aircraft guns, or the ack-ack were mobile and came onto our estate to confuse the 'Jerries', certainly they sounded very close.
After one such night, we found that incendery bombs had been dropped in large number, many of them in our wood. The air raid wardens were in the wood searching carefully for those that had not exploded
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