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On September 1939 war was declared when Mrs Colvin was ten years of age. The Germans bombed the Sunderland shipyards so all the children had to be evacuated. You only were aloud to have one bag of clothes and a gasmask (you never went anywhere without a gasmask).

When Mrs Colvin got evacuated she was exited because she had never been away anywhere before, she was moved to Driffield in North Yorkshire. Six hundred children were evacuated but by December there were only about thirty left. They either got home sick or there parents wanted them back.

Mary Martin, also known as granny, took her in and she had a three bedroom house with an attic room and no toilet or bathroom. Mrs Colvin had to do jobs around the house when she was there. Monday was wash day, Tuesday was ironing day, Wednesday was bedroom day, Thursday was baking day and Friday the rest of the house. There was no television or anything electric only a wireless to listen to what was going on in the war.

At the end she wanted to go back home for a visit. She brought all her stuff there and that night that very house got bombed. Luckily we still have Mrs Colvin around the school as she is healthy and survived the war.

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