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This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Sarah Housden of Norfolk Adult Education’s reminiscence team on behalf of Violet Alexander and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the site’s terms and conditions.

I worked on my father’s farm near Pulham Market near Diss in Norfolk during the war. We had to work very hard, but were never really affected by the bombing. I remember the evacuees coming to the village. It seemed amazing that these young children could come away from their homes into the countryside. Lots of them stayed for the whole war.

The farm had to fill in a lot of paperwork saying what we grew and what we did with it. The farmers kept the country going when food could no longer be easily imported. We grew mainly wheat. The Ministry of Agriculture had a lot of authority in telling farmers what to do.

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