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Recollections of two children during the Second World War.

Leeds was not bombed very often compared with other cities. Leeds lies in a hollow, so the Government gave the surrounding factories a substance to burn in their furnaces to make smoke. Because of this, Leeds was covered by a thick smoke and when they tried to bomb Leeds they hit the rhubarb fields, mistaking the roofs of the forcing sheds for munition factories.

There was one occasion when the two of us heard there was an unexploded bomb in a garden nearby and we went to look at it. It was in the front garden with its fins sticking out of the flower bed.

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