- Contributed by
- CSV Action Desk/BBC Radio Lincolnshire
- People in story:
- Margaret Hutchings
- Location of story:
- London N19
- Background to story:
- Civilian
- Article ID:
- A4401479
- Contributed on:
- 08 July 2005
I have three small memories of the War although I was quite young ….. being born in 1939.
Firstly I recall, as a small child, being wrapped in a blanket (which seemed to happen night after night) and being taken either into the cellar of the large London (Upper Holloway) house that my parents had a flat in or to the air raid shelter.
Rations were fairly meagre and I remember going to the butchers with my Mother and being given meat bones for my dolly … which were really for my Mother to make soup!
I recall trying to sleep in a Morrison shelter (huge table shape) within the house, whilst my Brother — born in 1943 — crawled over me. My Mother would be on the “table” above using her sewing machine.
Finally … who could ever forget the Doodle Bugs!
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