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Two went to West Kirby, and one went to Hoylake. The eldest boy was ten and the twins were seven and all you鈥檇 cry was 鈥淜eep them together.鈥� The two that were in West Kirby were in a very nice place, but they (the people who looked after the children) were emigrating to America and we didn鈥檛 know where the other lad was billeted. Then we got the information that he was in Hoylake with a young girl who had taken four evacuees, and she had two children herself, they were all too much for her to cope with. She expected the kids to look after themselves, wash themselves and that, because she had enough to do with her own children. Well, when I went to visit my son, his pack that he had with is clothes in hadn鈥檛 been touched. I went to visit him and when I saw that this girl couldn鈥檛 cope, I brought him home. I had to bring them home and then they were evacuated to Bethesda in Wales, but again they were not treated properly. She hadn鈥檛 been married and having three children put on her was too much, she had an old father to look after, so I brought them home with me. In between this we were bombed out and we had to go and live with my mother-in-law. In the shelter. So we had no home and we had to go and live with my mother-in-law up in Sparrow Hall. I was going to visit my children and I鈥檇 been knitting things for them and buying sweets and things, and when we were bombed out my husband had to fish the case out from under the rubble, but at least he was able to save it.

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