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Like many of the other local residents, we kept rabbits during the war. They were very cheap to keep.

You could gather food for them from the hedgerows, like Sheep’s Parsley and any stale bread you’d put in the oven and give it to them. You never had to buy any rabbit food.

It was our job as kids to look after the rabbits and dig the garden. We also kept ferrets at the bottom of the garden for rabbiting.

Quite a lot of farm workers kept them as a way of earning extra cash.

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