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This story was submitted to the People鈥檚 War website by Terry Sedgwick on behalf of Mrs Catharine Pugh and has been added to the website with her permission. Mrs Pugh fully understands the site鈥檚 terms and conditions.

As a child in Liverpool at the beginning of the war, I was initially evacuated to Handley in Cheshire where I stayed with a farm labourer鈥檚 wife and family for a period of six months before returning to Liverpool. Initially, as primary school children we were taught in each others houses (called home teaching) in numbers of four or five or more, depending upon the size of the house we were taught in. When we were old enough we attended what was then called `central school` where we had lessons during the morning but slept in the afternoon on hard wood floors. This was in case we didn鈥檛 manage to get any sleep at night due to the bombing. It was an exciting time for me. When we heard the air raid sirens, I would go with my mother and two sisters to the air raid shelters, which were situated in the street. My mother (Martha Robson)worked at the automatic telephone company while my sisters Maxine King (nee Robson and Marjorie Mostyn (nee Robson)worked for the war effort. One at Morris and Jones (Warehouses on the docks) and the other at Rolls Royce. Having no father I know it must have been hard for my mother. At the end of the war at the age of fifteen I met my husband James Pugh who was in the Royal Navy at that time.

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