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Our family had an Anderson Shelter, built front to front with our neighbours — with a roof between the two. We were joined by 2 other families who hadn’t bothered to build shelters — about 4 children between us.
During air raids at school I was passed over the school wall at the end of our garden, as my mother wanted me to be in the family shelter rather than the school’s shelters.
My father was in the Home Guard and met the trains full of wounded soldiers at Middlesbrough station — to be transferred to Hemlington Hospital. One thing he remembered most was having to cross the lake (that is now at Flamingo Land) on a raft made of oil drums — and he was terrified of water!

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