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This is a letter sent in ww2.


 * || [[image:http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2children/images/letters/letter9_letter_pic.jpg width="103" height="146" caption="Photograph of letter"]] ||  || **....since 7.30 we have had 15 planes over and gone off, goodness knows where. As it isn't safe to move out [|we are sleeping and nearly living in the shelters] all day long. I'm writing this in the shelter. I think it far worse than the Blitz. Cliff is very good. Their school is too damaged to attend, at any rate I wouldn't let him go if it weren't....** ||

 __**Windows**__

The glass of the windows was criss-crossed with sticky tape that would hold broken pieces of glass in place if a bomb blast close by caused them to shatter. All windows needed to have blackout blinds or curtains, that had to be closed at dusk to make sure that no light from inside the house could bee seen from outside as this would attract the attention of enemy bombers and make an excellent target. This was so important that wardens patrolled the streets at night and shouted out warnings if even the slightest chink of light showed.


 * __A child's bedroom__**


 * Blackout curtains**

Whole towns and cities would be in complete darkness during the night so that the German planes wouldn't have any light to help them find their targets.


 * Chamber pot**

This chamber pot is used in most houses, because they had outside toilets in their garden. If you needed the toilet in the middle of the night you would use this.


 * Water jug and Basin**

If you had a bathroom in your house in the 1940s you were very lucky. Most people had to wash in their bedrooms. This jug and basin was used for washing yourself.


 * __Bathroom__**

Soap was rationed so you were only allowed one tablet a month. It was so precious that it was kept in a little wire basket so that the soap could drain and dry properly, wasting none of it as sludge. If the soap-flake ration for the clothes washing ran out, this precious tablet of soap would have to be used to finish the washing.

No more than 12.5 cm of water was allowed to be used in baths, and people often painted a line around the bath to show how deep it was allowed to be.

Newspaper was torn into strips or squares and hooked up with a nail, it was used for **toilet paper**!


 * __A kitchen__**

Many dining tables were replaced by steel Morrison shelters as a defence against German bombs.

Metal was scarce because it was used by the army, so if one of your kitchen utensills broke you would have to try and fix it yourself or try and use a different one instead. Pots and pans could not easily be replaced either, for the same reason.


 * Fruit bowl**

During the war some foods were hard to get, we could only get a certain amount each week. We were lucky because we had apples which were grow in Britian.


 * Stove**

A stove was used to burn wood or heat coal, the small door is used to burn the coal and the large one was used for cooking. The stove would also heat the kitchen.


 * __A sitting room__**

Many sitting rooms had a tailors dummy, as people had to make their own clothes.

People in the 1940s would use candles instead of electricity.
 * Candle**


 * A fire place**

This fire place would be the only way to warm people up. Fires had to be kept quite small to conserve coal. After a fire had died out, the embers were sieved so any reusable pieces could be saved.


 * Bookcase**

People would use a bookcase for reading instead of watching television.

Life at home was not easy. The girls had to learn to cook and the boys had to learn to do handy work. As you know, they didn't have electricity so they had to use candles.