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I was evacuated at the age of 12 from Shoreditch Central School, London to Burnham Market, Norfolk in...
Essex saw a lot of air battles; enemy aircraft were as familiar as our own Spitfires and Hurricanes, but...
I was a shy little girl and nervous of disturbing people I didn't know, so I shouted to my brother,...
Now and again overhead Granny heard Doodle bugs and was quickly ushered into the bomb shelter....
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In 1944 I was 5 years old and I lived in the pleasent leafy suburb of Roundhay in Leeds, Yorkshire. At the...
Myself, my sister and 3 brothers were evacuated to St Albans. At St Albans we were given a carrier bag with...
We unloaded in a field with an apple orchid and with all of the evacuees being from Liverpool I doubt that...
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