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Childhood Memories - Upwey Wishing Well

by CSV Action Desk Leicester

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CSV Action Desk Leicester
People in story: 
Margaret Kathleen Oldridge
Location of story: 
Weymouth, Dorset
Background to story: 
Civilian
Article ID: 
A4104523
Contributed on: 
23 May 2005

One day we went on a bus ride to Upwey Wishing Well where they served afternoon teas. This was a real treat and must have cost quite a bit.
At the wishing well people drank some of the water and then threw some over their shoulder and wished.
I thought this was a bit silly, but did it any way, although I didn't wish.
I prayed as a 5 year old child that my dad would come home safely. He did at the end of the war when I was 7 and a half.

'This story was submitted to the People's War Website by Lisa Reeves of CSV Action Desk Leicester on behalf of Margaret Clarke and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the sites terms and conditions.'

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