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Shropshire when war broke out – in pictures
Thursday 3rd September 2009, 9:00AM BST.
As war clouds gathered, key public buildings in Shropshire were protected by sandbags. Here boy scouts are helping in the operation to protect the old Wellington Police Station, in Church Street, in August 1939. Second from left is Constable Stan Thomas, who served in the police for 31 years. He is checking that the workmen are stacking the sandbags correctly.
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i was 6 at the time and went to kynnersley school, i remember we had a lot of kids from liverpool but they didn`t seem to last long and must have returned home,we all got issued with gas masks,it seemed an exciting time for us, the school teacher at the time was a mrs thomas and a miss pidgeon who took the infants if my memory serves me right, happy days.,
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