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Syd Lennard born 1915.
I was a plumber, that was a reserved education. I was working on an airfield at Moreton in Marsh. I was called up to go to Oxford for a medical and mental test. I wnet through all these various tests in front of someone covered with red tape. He said "I've got to tell you, you've just done something that nobody else has done. By your tests I recommend you have an immediate commission in the tank corps. Ithought, I don't want to die in a condensed milk tin i.e. Tank so I went outside and said to the chap there "Where's the RAF recruiting office ? he directed me there so I had to go in front of another chap. Someone came out and said "The plane on the left is a whatever and the plane on the right is a whatever." I didn't know one plane from another but I remembered what he said and that was ok. They gave you a shilling. Ihad to take a Bible and swear allegiance to the Sovereign, heirs and successors etc. I swore this and they said I would hear in due course. As I was in a reserved occupation I didn't hear for 5 months. Then I had a ticket to report to Lord's cricket ground, Regents Park.

Babs Lennard born 1914.
When daddy had to go abroad a policman came to tell us. That frightened me. i cansee him now. He was very tall I could see the shape of his helmet in the glass of the door. We were making strawberry jam in a big saucepan. It was summer, I ran across the road to tell my Mum. She finished making the jam. We caught the train to Salford that night. The train was full of injured soldiers. We arrived at his billet at 6 o'clock in the morning and had to thow pebbles up at the window to wake him up. He wasn't a bit pleased to see us. He said "What have you come for? We stayed inthe same billet as dad. I had my first taste of tripe. I had to get 2 pennyworth of gravy in a jug to go with the mushy peas. They didn't have a garden. There was a bowling green opposite. We used to go there. That's where I had my handbag stolen with all my coupons in it. It rained a lot. I hated Salford. Wilmslow was different. We lived there when dad was putting the heating in a factory making armaments. I liked it there.

Raymond Lennard-brown b.1937

We went to live in Hunstanton during the war. The German planes on their way back from Manchester and Liverpool used to jettison their bombs. We heard the air raid
warning and mum stuffed Ken and me under the bed. In the morning I remember walking across the rubble. The front of the house had come down. I used to wander around on my bike and follow the Scots Guards that were stationed there. When my bike broke the army garage that serviced the trucks and tanks welded it for me. We used to collect all the unused bullets that were lying about and take them to bits and put the cordite in jars. We made lines of it and set it alight. We used to go for walks picking up wood. Mum used my pram to collect firewood.There was a salvage place for cans and bones at the back of Victoria Avenue. Miss Bired lived nextdoor. She looked after the weather station. She would ride up on her bike to record the max. and min. temperatures.

Maureen Lennard-Brown.

We lived in Moreton in Marsh while dad worked there. The milk used to come round on a cart in a churn and you filled your jug up. once the neighbours bought a large pig home in a cart. They killed the pig in the back garden. they dug its eyes out and put them in a custard powder sachet and told me to go and give it to my mother. Like a good girl I carried the pakcet off and gave it to her as she was coming downstairs. I think she fell the rest of the way.

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