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15 October 2014
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Under the Table

by Lucychaloner

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Lucychaloner
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Ethel Hutson and Joan Cherry
Location of story:听
Gravsend, Kent
Background to story:听
Civilian
Article ID:听
A4145393
Contributed on:听
02 June 2005

During the war Gravsend in Kent suffered very heavy bombing. My grandmother Ethel and her sister Joan were living with their mother at the time as their husbands were away fighting. My grandmother describes a table which she and her sister use to sleep under (I presume this was a Morrison Shelter table), this might not seem out of the ordinary, but my great-grandmother used to take in paying guests, and whilst my grandmother and her sister lay under the table sleeping, these paying guests would eat their breakfasts off of it. We asked our grandmother if the guests ever kicked them and she replied that they did quite often!

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