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I was born in 1938 and as a child there was a P.O.W Camp at the end of Leaford Road where we lived. I would pass this camp as I was going to play in the fields past the camp. I would look through the wire at the men inside, and they always seemed so big!!!

One day they came out to walk to work on the farms nearby, and one of them gave me a ride on his shoulders! The guards were okay, and said it was alright. A few days later I was looking through the wire again, when the same man threw over the fence, a wooden toy he had made for me! It was like a table tennis bat with a chicken on it, with a string through a hole and a wooden ball on the other end. As I waved the bat up and down, the chicken bobbed up and down, as though it was pecking the ground!

I never knew the Germans' name, but played with my chicken game for a long time! All my friends wanted one too!

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