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Brook Field children meet up with war veterans

Year 5 pupils at Brook Field Primary School invited pensioners to join them for a Christmas party knees-
up in December to show off what they had learnt about life in World War II during the Autumn term.
This included a visit from the Despite signing the Offiã al Se- noise was terrific, it’s something
Wiltshire Living History Group crets Act, the visit has been revealed I’ll never forget.” The Blackthorn School
who arrived in period cars and at www.brookfield.swindon.sch.uk Margaret Burrows said she could of Photography
Jeeps, dressed in clothing of the time At the party, the pensioners from still smell wartime London. “It
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