Where did you live during the War?

Sarah: My house? Where I lived? Where I was brought up? Oh that’s quite easy, this is not done on purpose (as she gets something from her bag) these are there all of the time this is the house I was brought up in, that one at this side. Now there are two houses there, you see, and that, that cottage, that is a farm cottage and it was wonderful to live there we were miles from everybody else more or less.

John: Where I was brought up was also a farm cottage, the farm building was down below with the house up high in the hill that’s where we were brought up, but my father died when we were all very young he was actually in the first world war, and he got a cannon ball shot through his hip he was ok for a wee while after that but when we were, I was the second oldest, when I was nine, seven, five, four, three or whatever it was, he took this massive haemorrhage it wasn’t in the back kitchen because we didn’t have a kitchen in those days it was just a wee passage and you went into the living room, he took this massive haemorrhage and mother came running out we were outside, must have the weekend, cant remember, but we came running in and I seen my father lying on the floor and the floor looked to have pints and pints of blood and of course to me seven years old it looked massive but probably only lost a pint or two.

Anyway he was taken away to hospital and we never saw him again, he never recovered from that. So we had to leave the cottage and move to where my mother belonged which was the village of Twynham now I don’t know if any of you have heard of the village of Twynham, any of you watch the Formula 1 Racing? If you’ve heard of David Couldhart well David comes from the village of Twynham, just a couple of doors away from us, in fact Mrs Patterson gave David his dinner everyday at the school. So that’s where I was brought up.