MIRRIE’S  MEMORIES:

Introducing Mirrie Lambert

Early life in Hickling

A “Royal Ride”

Father was the Verger

A baby’s funeral

Tonsilectomy

I bought a bicycle…

I wanted to join the Medical

Corps…

The Town Street Fire

Travelling home in wartime

German pilots…

Cleaning the church

Dad died very early

Changes in the Village

Fruit and potatoes

Sheltering from machine guns

Measles

Nannying at home and abroad

Social life - church and village

DANGER - UXB!

Incendiary Bombs etc.

In this clip we hear about German incendiary bombs dropped on the village, about German pilots using Hickling church as a machine gun target and about watching German bombers flying over Great Yarmouth beach.

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