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Article: `Our lawn was dug up - and we planted potatoes'.(Features)
- Article from:
- Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
- Article date:
- June 9, 2005
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Byline: By Tony Pogson
We're in the middle of the period between the 60th anniversary of VE Day (May 8) and of VJ Day (August 14) and there has been a lot of renewed interest in the war years.
I've just come across one book, How Was It for You? - Memories of the 1940s, by Rob Horlock of Hampshire, that has one long section about wartime Huddersfield.
Geoff Darby, who spent the war years in Huddersfield, says: "In 1940 we started losing some of our schoolteachers into the forces. Our front ...