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In 1941, mothers and children were evacuated out of London because of the heavy bombing. We went by train to Manchester for a stopover and then to Bacup, a small town - which was very old-fashioned. At first, we were billeted with a farm worker and his wife near Todmorden and went to a village school at the top of Sharney Ford. It was very cold there and the man was hard but his wife was OK but we soon got a move to another house in Bacup near the Rochdale Road and went to another school.

It was a very cold winter in 1941 and we had blizzards and snow drifts and outside toilets down at the back of the houses - which made life very difficult. My dad used to come up to see us for a weekend about once a month. We were up there for 8 months and then we went back to London with a Northern accent!

In around 1944, we move to Pepler Road.

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