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Idyllic days at Seatown - no more!

Dorothy writes...

With the outbreak of war, the idyllic days at Seatown came to an end. One of my brothers arranged for the family to move to a new house in Crock Lane in Bridport where it would be safer.

Sherborne in the war

Rene Wilton/Blackmore writes...

I met my husband on New Year’s Eve 1935, and then did not see him again until New Year’s Eve 1936. We were married in 1940.
My employer made a lovely wedding cake for me and paid for my wedding dress to be made. By now, the bombing raids had started and so every time the sirens went, the seamstress who was making my wedding dress used to roll the dress up in a big sheet and sit with it in the cupboard under the stairs until the ‘all clear’ sounded The dress and the seamstress survived!

Painter and decorator volunteers for RAF

Bill Gaulter writes...

When I left school I went to work with my father as a painter and decorator, we went to all the houses in the village and made up all the colours ourselves, but all the paints contained lead and cases of lead poisoning were common.

Weymouth during the war

Ida Goddard writes...

During the war there was so much traffic coming down Wyke Road to the harbour, ready to go over to France, that you couldn’t cross the road.

Blackout Warden in Dorchester

I remember the blackout in Dorchester and walking everywhere in the dark.

Update on a London evacuee in Dorset

Glenies Bryant writes...

I read with interest the article by Sandra Banks on her evacuation at the age of three,to a thatched cottage in the small Dorset hamlet of Newtown, Wicthampton.