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When I was about 10 years old and living near Holme Mills on the River Ivel, there were Italian Prisoners of War building a new lock on the river. They wore brown uniforms / overalls with a distinctive yellow patch on them. They took the old stones from the ancient lock and one prisoner, who was a sculptor, made religious effigies. He made one statue of Christ which is still standing by the river.

The sculptor also made a bust of King George VI and a photographer from a national newspaper came and took a pictue of me and my sister which appeared in the Daily Paper. We did not take a paper at home and someone brought it to show my father. This is how he found out that we had been playing truant from school!

One of the prisoners became friendly with the maid at the Big House. He went home after the war, but later came back and they were married and setled in England.

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