- Contributed byÌý
- Guernseymuseum
- People in story:Ìý
- Martha Martel (née Hubert)
- Location of story:Ìý
- Guernsey
- Background to story:Ìý
- Civilian
- Article ID:Ìý
- A6374892
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 25 October 2005
Martha Martel (née Hubert) interviewed by Lynne Ashton of the Guernsey Museum.
Recording transcribed and edited by J David
Mrs Martel. It was a very big garden, we had a quarry in it as well which we swam in during the war.
I….….….. Of course, because all the beaches were shut away, they were mined and barbed wire.
Mrs Martel. It was the most beautiful summer
I….….….. This was which year?
Mrs Martel. I can’t remember which year now, but we did swim in it, it was very difficult to swim, because it was not salt water. We also had a pulley rope from the field above the quarry that came all the way down, and several of them came down on this pulley rope, I didn’t. We had a diving board there as well, and then one Sunday we had so many people that turned up from Town, that my father said no more swimming in the quarry, so that was the end of that.
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