Mr Cochrane

Annfield Plain, Catchgate and Loud Bank, work at Binns in Darlington. Wartime. Hospital treatment. Brass bands, miner's gala. Redcar in world war two

Location: Annfield Plain
County: Durham
AUD1993-15

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Transcript of audio:
at school as the war went on we started to get more and more time off, besides dashing to the shelter every time the siren went - we liked that because we did no lessons, nothing ever happened and we just marched back again when the siren went again - but then we started to get time off for potato picking, we were sent out to various farmers for a week of potato picking which we found very hard going, but we'd earned a shilling or two and that pleased us a great deal. Then we had blackberry week when we had to go around and gather bucketfuls of blackberries - again time off school - then rosehips to be collected. Rosehips were collected to make rosehip syrup, it was discovered by that time how essential vitamin C was to our health, particularly young children, and besides orange were beginning to disappear from the shops. Anyway, all these activities kept us away from school, and at the time we were glad of it....

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