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15 October 2014
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Feeling Rough Under Ground

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A7431347
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Terry, Sylvie and Ethel Brown
Location of story:Ìý
Wandsworth
Background to story:Ìý
Civilian
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A6417542
Contributed on:Ìý
26 October 2005

I was staying with me grandfather in 39 Standen Road, Southfields, Wandsworth. My father was in the navy. We were in the only house that still had gas. The rest had electric. It was 1949.

We was in the Anderson Shelter. You’d pull a rose bush to one side and go down the shelter. Me grandfather made it. It was so damp down there. I think we put a duckboard down there. I got whooping cough, diphtheria and measles, chicken pox and things, you know.

You felt rough under ground. But you have to fight it or you give in. I has me mother’s love and me family. Everyone mucked in.

This story was submitted to the People’s War Site by Helena Noifeld of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Kent and has been added to the website on behalf of Terry Brown with his permission and he fully understands the site’s terms and conditions.

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