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When the war broke out I had not even reachedf 3 years old. Although born in Bedford, by 1940 I was living at little Paxton,going to St. Neot's for School. I remember one day seeing an aeroplane (fighter) that had come down on St. Neot's Comman. It was surrounded by a white tape barrier with a military guard. By 1942 I moved to live at Glenridding, in Westmoreland (the English lake district), going to school at Patterdale.
My memories are, that so far north, there was not much military activity. Sometimes a convoy would come over Kirkston pafs from Windermere and proceed towards peurith. Some memeries:-
*Powdered egg- make a solution i.e. water, soak bread in it and shallow fry- delicious:- not for the figure conscious.
*Sugar sandwiches! No jam- very bad for the teeth, leading to fillings and exstractions!
*Cough sweets, know as Nibbits- were not rationed. The chocolate ration was very small!
In 1945 I retured to Bedford and went to rushmoor school. till 1948, then Bedford school till 1955.
After the war each school child recived a certificate from H.M. king George 6 saying that they had lived through the war.
My father had served in the RAF as a cook at RAF Hohnington he was invalided out in 1942 and that is how my family came to live in the lake district, where he worked as a cook in the local lead mine.

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