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Every night, the wardens went out and shouted, 鈥淧ut that light out!鈥� because the raiders were coming over to drop the bombs. So of course everybody made sure there were no lights showing, because it was the lights that guided them into towns. Everybody was on standby, watching out for anything irregular.

There wasn鈥檛 much stuff about so people with gardens would help others out. Everything was in short supply. My father was a keen gardener. If there was a poor family nearby he would say, "Take some vegetables over." People helped one another then.

My brothers were in the army; one of them was in the Grenadier Guards serving in London. My father said, 鈥淗ow many more of you do they want?!鈥� when I was sent to work in Coventry. (My brothers were all volunteers.) I had to work in a munitions factory. Everybody had a job to do, and everybody had to make sure there were no lights showing too! I didn鈥檛 like working in the factory because I鈥檇 been used to working in an office making sure the wages were ready on a Friday.

They used to bring people from London and asked people to put them up. They brought them here for safety because London was being heavily bombed at the time. That was before Coventry was bombed.

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