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I will always remember the day war broke out. It was Sunday lunchtime and I was in Wlleys field ( dont even ask who Willey was )watching some workmen dig what was later to be an air raid shelter. (Now part of the school at the end of Dudley Road.)The air raid siren went off and the workmen told me to go home to my mother. I was six years old at time,or should I say five and three quarters. The early part for me was fairly quiet. At school we had gas mask drill and had to carry them everywhere. Mum covered mine in a canvas blackout material.I still come out in goose bumps when I hear moaning minnie. A little later on all the children in the road were playing when a German fighter came swooping down and started to use its machine guns, we scattered in all directions. He was heading for the R.E.M.E camp about a quarter of a mile away. Mr. Barnes was in the home gaurd and started shooting his rifle at it, needless to say he didnt hit it.After an air raid we used to go out and collect shapnell and spent bullets and bullet casings, take them to school to swop for marbles,ciggerette cards,and anthing else that would take your fancy.Well on into the war a V2 rocket landed in the garden of Locks the undertakers on the corner of Dudley Rd and Clarendon Rd, almost opposite the shelter in Willeys field and not all of it exploded. Some of us went to the site and I picked up (as I now know) some glass wool. I was ictching for days afterwards,it didn't matter what you did you just couldn't get rid of it. That was the night our bedroom ceiling came down on my brother and myself.

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