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This story was submitted to the People's War site by Louisa Pointon, a volunteer on behalf of Terry Jobson and has been added to the site with his permission. Terry fully understands the site's terms and conditions.

Large water tanks which were made as a source of water for fire fighting purposes and large brick built air raid shelters were both placed on streets and roads in Leicester. Anderson shelters were also built in people's back gardens. The doctor who lived across the road from us, John Victor Tollington had his own private air raid shelter. A brick built shelter sunk into his orchard which floooded in the winter.
The local coal merchant was known to deliver sacks of logs by appearance to certain friends. They looked like logs from the outside as there were logs sticking out the sides and on top but they actuallly contained coal inside.
The local butcher rang my father asking for use of our shed to hang one or two carcasses as the meat inspector was coming round!
One of our family's customers had an allotment on which they kept pigs. By various means, we were able to supply them with food to feed the pigs in return for which we recieved joints of pork around Christmas time.

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