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No school thanks to the War

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Edith Wilshaw
Location of story: 
Nottingham
Background to story: 
Civilian
Article ID: 
A4430332
Contributed on: 
11 July 2005

"This story was submitted to the People's War site by CSV/BBC Radio Nottingham on behalf of Edith Wilshaw with her permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions"

When I was about 9 or 10 years old we didn’t have to go to school for lessons we had to go to some houses where we would learn instead because the school was being used as a hospital for the injured army etc. We quite liked it, sitting around a table learning and having tea and biscuits.

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