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shropshirelibraries
People in story: 
Dorothy Garlick
Location of story: 
Oldbury
Background to story: 
Civilian
Article ID: 
A4045187
Contributed on: 
10 May 2005

In 1941/2 I was collecting shrapnel in Oldbury. I remember there being an Anderson shelter in the garden. While we were in there one day we heard a big bang which actually came from a "Big Bertha gun" and it threw my mother off her chair. Also I remember Italian POWs in the Blue Rock Quarries nearby and they want ed to learn how to speak English so they traded sweets for English lessons.

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