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When the Cows Come Home

by derbycsv

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derbycsv
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Mr Geoffrey Walters, John Simms
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Pentrich
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Civilian
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A5201056
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19 August 2005

Myself and John the Farm Baliffs son were gathering the farms cattle from one field and moving them to the next when a German Aircraft flying overhead very low and scared us half to death. Butterley Way in Buttterley near Swanwick Qualcast used to burn molton gas as a way to guide the poilots overhead. I was only ten years old, seven when the WW2 broke out.

I was sleeping on the sofa listening to the wireless and was woken as they (Germans) bombed "Yellow Yard - Swanwick Derbyshire.

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