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Life in Wartime Brigg (WW2) Reminiscences of Kathleen Mary Gooding, (Family referred to : Grandma was Mary Ellen Kenny, Sheila and Veronica were her two youngest daughters. Mum was Kathleen Mary Cook, nee Kenny, Mary Ellen's third youngest daughter, and Dad was Richard Johnston Cook. Betty was Elizabeth Cook, my younger sister, who died as a result of the air raids.
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Grandma's house in Hull was damaged by an incendiary bomb and she didn't want to stay there by herself as Aunty Sheila was called up and went into the Land Army for a while. Heavens knows why because she didn't like the country. However, after a while she joined the WAAF and had a great time. Grandma moved to Brigg, to Aunty Veronica's house on the river, and shortly afterwards Mum and I joined them. This was after Betty died and we were bomb blasted again in May 41. We loaded all the possessions we had left into a lorry and moved to Brigg. I went to the local Catholic primary school for all of three weeks and ran away every morning playtime. It sounds rather like a joke now but looking back I realise that we had had a traumatic time losing Betty and being bombed. I loved Brigg and even liked the convent boarding school. Mum was called up and joined the NAAFI and was posted to Scampton. Not for long though, because as soon as dad found out she was ordered to leave and go home! I stayed at the convent but as a day scholar, after boarding for nearly a year. I remember getting mumps there. I didn't know I had it until we were going out for a walk with the nuns one Sunday afternoon and the strap of my velour hat was tight and when Sister investigated she found I had mumps! It was great fun living on the river bank. Lots of houseboats had been moored up there "for the duration" and I had free run of them. I had no fear when jumping from one to another though I expect Mum would have had a fit if she had seen me. We had a market day on Thursdays and in the holidays I loved to "serve" on one of the stalls run by a Jewish woman who Granny had known in Hull. She used to let me take the money and give change, after she had checked it of course. On Friday nights the Salvation Army used to have open air services in the good weather and I loved standing near them and singing, that is until Aunty Veronica caught me and dragged me off home! |
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