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Wartime West Sussex 1939-45

Gillian Mellors

Gillian Mellors was 6 when the war started and lived in Worthing. Her family stayed together during the war and her parents ran Wards Confectioners on Montague Street. Her father was in the Royal Corps of Signals and took part in the D-Day landings. The family had an evacuee to stay with them but she was a lot of trouble. Gillian remembers her schooling being affected by the war because she couldn't sleep much at night because of air raids and that she always had hand-me-downs because of clothes rationing.

1. Gillian Mellors recalls that her education was affected by war
2. Gillian Mellors remembers seeing soldiers from the Dunkirk evacuations
3. Gillian Mellors recalls how metal was collected at start of the war
4. Gillian Mellors says that she was a latch key kid
5. Gillian Mellors talks about the threat of invasion
6. Gillian Mellors remembers going to the cinema
7. Gillian Mellors talks about her early memories of war and gas masks
8. Gillian Mellors remembers air raid shelters
9. Gillian Mellors says there was full employment and remembers going shopping and queuing
10. Gillian Mellors talks about clothes rationing
11. Gillian Mellors remembers the Battle of Britain
12. Gillian Mellors talks about food rationing
13. Gillian Mellors remembers the mined beaches and plane crashes


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