- Contributed byÌý
- intuitiveTricia
- People in story:Ìý
- Sarah Batchelor, Stella, Joe and Flo Hardy and child Patricia
- Location of story:Ìý
- Purfleet, Essex.
- Background to story:Ìý
- Civilian
- Article ID:Ìý
- A8561883
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 15 January 2006
In Purfleet when there was an air raid warning everyone had to run to air raid shelters carved out of the cliff. One evening it happened and we all had to run (including by Great Grandmother Sarah), taking what we could for the night in the shelter. The next morning an enormous pair of bloomers were found in the road and displayed in the local Post Office window. Stella (my Grandmother) recognised them but Sarah was adament they were not hers. Rationing coupons made my embarrassed Grandmother collect them for her.
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