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I attended St Johns鈥� Primary School in Redhill, Surrey during the war. I was seven or eight years old when it began. I can remember going up and down the Air Raid Shelters. We did lots of knitting and sang songs down there. Do you know 鈥楾en Green Bottles鈥� or 鈥業nsy Winsy Spider鈥�?

In later years we stayed out during the Air Raids. Fancy that. We watched the V2 rockets or 鈥淒oodlebugs鈥�. We would try to see where they landed. Then the boys would pedal off after them on their bicycles. They collected the pieces. If a piece had a number on it, it was very special.

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