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For my interview with my granny I just asked her how old she was in the war and what she remembered. I also asked her about the blitz spirit and this is what she told me.
My granny was 8 years old when the war started. She remembers the rationing and the gas masks. The gas masks were smelly and foul, but you had to test it at least once a week in a practice drill. On the rationing her mum dealt with the food and clothes so she doesn鈥檛 remember much about that. Her family lived out in the countryside so they were never bombed but she went to school in the town so she did see houses that had been bombed sometimes. As for a blitz spirit she isn鈥檛 sure whether that really existed, she only knows that people helped each other and they tried to make light of it, especially around children. Her dad was away for 6 years but loads of other families never saw their dads again. She mentioned that after the war there had been riots and sort of petitions in her nearest town to stop the poor sanitation and re - build where the bombed houses had been, and she heard that other towns had done it too. And that is how she feels what the war was really like.

By Emily Middler

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