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- covwarksactiondesk
- People in story:Ìý
- Ged West / Mr Young
- Location of story:Ìý
- Coventry
- Article ID:Ìý
- A4427255
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 11 July 2005
This story was submitted by Angela Triggs of CSV Coventry on behalf of Ged West and has been added to this site with his permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.
The morning after the Coventry Blitz when I was 13 there was no water in the taps. We lived on Hermitage Road in Wyken and one of our neighbours - Mr Young, knew that there was a spring in the fields behind our houses.
He dug a hole around where the spring came to the surface and this made a big puddle. My job was to sit there all day with a jug and scoop the clean top water in the housewive's pans / buckets - they brought anything that would hold water.
It only lasted a day because the next day they opened a fire hydrant in the car park of the Wyken Pippin pub, and attached a standpipe.
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