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Of all the evacuees in Ebbw Vale, none attracted more blatant attention than the family who came to us from...
I remember being taken everywhere by my grandma in a push chair even to the age when I was around 5 and...
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I can remember him saying that the Germans always tried to bomb the docks, but did not succeed because...
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I got into the garden and came face to face with a German....
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