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- Ipswich Museum
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- Bob Duff
- Location of story:听
- Ipswich
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A3135818
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- 15 October 2004
Just before the War there was serious flooding in Ipswich (which most people forget, remembering the '54 inundations more). We were moved from our water-soaked house just next to the Gipping, at Commercial Road. We eventually ended up in an estate, Witton, at Thackery Road, just War had broken out.
There wre huts for the RAF in Church Land, not far away. As children we used to peer through their windows to look at models of aircraft, Spitfires and German planes. There were Anderson shelters in the gardens, and we were issued with gas masks and ear-plugs. I can recall making rings out of the glass from areoplanes that had crashed just outside Ipswich.
Later there were Italian POWs. When the harvest came they gave us children corn dollies.
This is reproduced with Bob Duff's permission by Ipswich Museum.
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