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John Payne · 1930s · Fort Dunlop

John Payne on anti-aircraft duty, 1939

Filmed for Voices of Kingstanding in 2012, John Payne, formerly of Rough Road, recalls signing up in 1939 and starting his military career manning a Lewis gun on top of the Dunlop factory in…

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Maureen Eyles · 1930s · Kingsland School, Bandywood

Gas masks from a house in Queslett Road

About 1937/8 I went to the primary school, I always remembered it as Bandywood school now I think it must have been Kingsland.

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