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My dad was a miner and my mum cleaned and worked at Higham Grange - a miners convalescence home.
My sister did the cooking there and another sister and her husband lived in the lodge there and they were the caretakers.
We used to go to visit them at school holidays.
The building is still there now.
My husband Terrace was in the airforce ferrying food to the Germans. He was part of the Berlin Airlift and was on the Churchill Plane.
My brother was a dispatch rider in the army and was rescued from Dunkirk.
He didn't talk much about the war.
My brother did come home safely, then he went to work down the pit.

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