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What
is your name and how old were you when the war started?
Amy: My name is Amy and
I was brought up on Westburn Rd, I was 15 when war broke
out.
Ina: My name is Ina
and I was brought up in Inverness. I was 24 when war broke
out.
What was
your job?
Amy: I worked in a big
store, Esslemont and MacIntosh.
Ina: I worked in the
Calvin restaurant in Inverness.
Did you
grow your own vegetables?
Amy: Yes.
Ina: No, we lived in
a tenement, but my brother did his garden.
Anybody
you know get evacuated?
Amy: No.
Ina: Nobody got evacuated.
How hard
was it to get food?
Amy: Very, very hard to get food.
Ina: Everything was
rationed… very little food but enough to keep us going.
Can you remember how long you would
be in the night shelter?
Amy: Oh about 6 hours.
Used to go and sleep in there about 10 o’clock at night
and maybe the all clear would sound about 4 the next morning.
Ina: Sometimes
it depended on how bad the air raid was as to how long you
had to stay in the shelter. Some nights you did not go in
at all. |
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Projects
. WWII Timeline . Wifies
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