- Contributed by听
- euan mahy
- People in story:听
- Pam Davies
- Location of story:听
- Looe, south east Cornwall
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A2626292
- Contributed on:听
- 12 May 2004
This story was contributed by Pam Davies of Newquay, Cornwall. Hers is one of a number of accounts submitted by listeners to 麻豆官网首页入口 Radio Cornwall.
The one thing that mostly sticks in my mind was the day we were due to take the Entrance Exam to go to Liskeard Grammar School. At the time, we lived in West Looe and went to the local school there. As we sat the exam, the siren went, so we all had to go into the cloakroom and crouch down on the floor, where we were not allowed to talk to each other, in case we told each other the answers.
During the raid either a landmine or a bomb was dropped on Looe Island because the Germans mistook it for a ship.
After the all clear, we sat the exam as normal.
In 1944 we started at Liskeard Grammar School, nearly all of us having passed after all. This entailed going by train every morning. The windows of the train were protected by brown paper strips in case of air raids. During the winter months we walked to the station in the blackout using torches, both morning and evening. Remember we were only eleven years old and it was a long day, lasting from 8am to 6.15pm. There were no buses.
And I remember that from Hannafore, in West Looe, we could see the barrage balloons floating over Plymouth. When the City was bombed, we could see the glow of the burning buildings.
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