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On Monday 11th July 2005 we had a visitor come into school, her name was Mrs. Maureen Manners. She was a baby at the start of World War II, (only ten days old). As a baby, she had a special ration book that was green, only babies were allowed bananas because they could be mashed up and were easy to eat. She had a giant gas mask which was as big as she was and made her look like Mickey Mouse!
Maureen had two older sisters, Ilene and Peggy, aged ten and twelve. Her sisters had bunk beds in their air raid shelter and Maureen slept in a drawer at home. They lived in London and during the war there was no meat in London, they shopped at the corner shop up the road to their house and used coupons instead of money.
Maureen remembered the noise the doodlebug bombs made, they made a screaming noise, then a hiss and then the bomb would drop down.
Maureen and her sisters got evacuated to Oxford to her family鈥檚 farm and stayed there for three months, their mum, who was quite deaf, went with them as Maureen was under five. She used to go with her sisters to collect the eggs, on the farm.
Maureen鈥檚 father worked in a bottle factory and so didn鈥檛
have to go to war.
The grown up ladies couldn鈥檛 get stockings so they painted their legs with gravy to make it look as if they were wearing stockings!
By the end of the war Maureen had started school, the children wore knee length grey socks, short trousers and plimsolls, school finished at 4.00 each day.

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