- Contributed by听
- Essex Action Desk
- People in story:听
- Mary F Jones
- Location of story:听
- Colchester
- Article ID:听
- A3903518
- Contributed on:听
- 16 April 2005
I was a teacher in a boys school. In the long summer holiday, we volunteered to help with the Kent harvest.
We stayed in a school where we slept on the floor and cooked our food in the science lab.
Each day a farmer took us to his farm. He taught us how to use a pitch fork, so that we could get the sheves onto a horse drawn waggon.
It was hard work, i always got sunburnt and the days were long. I was glad for the experience as it was such a change from the classroom and we felt that we were doing something useful. I was only about 21 years and so it was quite a unique experience.
For the rest of the war I continued as a teacher.
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