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__Tonbridge during the war__

During world war two Tonbridge had prisoner of war camps where the Weald of Kent school is and at Horns Lodge farm, Staffcrow Hill, Shipbourne road. Italian soldiers that had been captured were kept there. Members of my family recalled that they used to give children bars of chocolate and cigarrette cards to collect.

People used to collect materials like iron and steel for the war effort to make things like shells and bullets so the railings outside Tonbridge school were taken down to be used.

As D DAY was coming there were lots of lorries and tanks going through Tonbridge high street every day.

Many families had a morrison air raid shelter in their lounges or dining rooms that were made of steel and they would often have to sleep there at night. Bombs were dropped on Tonbridge because it was the route German planes used on the way back from bombing London during the Battle of Britain. You could see lots of planes in the sky over Tonbridge.

In 1940 pillboxes were built along the River Medway, in case the Germans invaded. __Tonbridge In WW2.__ In Tonbridge life was very hard. It is very strange thinking about it but WW2 did come to our home town. Some army soilders patroled around the streets of Tonbridge if any incidents occured or a German soilder secretly was in Tonbridge. A woman (who was a child at that very time) in London who came down into Tonbridge wrote a diary which was found in 7th July 2005. She wrote in her diary that when she went into Tonbridge, soilders from Dunkirk came into Tonbridge after an incident happened in Dunkirk .That very incident was that German soilders bombed the beaches of Dunkirk in a quick second and Dunkirk soilders had to be evacuated fast .So that very day some Dunkirk soilders happened to come to Tonbridge by train .Some pupils from Judd( the school just across the road from us)kindly got a cup of tea and a small little biscuit for a change of taste.Tonbridge is one of the many places where horrible, scary and eventful things happened in the WW2.So just think, would you have wanted to be around in WW2?