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I was a child when the war started 1939, I was 4 years old,we were living at 15 Stuart street on Barrow Island.
we lived in the middle of Vickers Armstrong Shipyard and engineering .A land mine droped on Cannon Street ,when the siren went ,we had to go to the shellter until all clear .
Then we went home there would be no windows ,and soot
everywhere.
I was evacuated to Blackburn to Mrs HAYHUST she picked me up
on Blackburn station then we went back to there home, where I stayed for a short while with her son, Roland and her husband.
When my son Stuart came back from the Falklands in 1982
his picture was in the Lancashire Evening Telegraph. The next day the telephone rang, and a voice said "Brian, you were evacuated to my family for a short time.", and I realised that this was Mrs Hayhurst. It was a surprise to hear from her after all this time, and we met up and visited each other regularly until she passed away.

I allso lived in a HEN HUT for time in field out side LINDAL in FURNESS. Then to URSWICK to another family.
We lived at 24 BREWERY STREET at Barrow in Furness, opposite
the remains of Earl Street, where a land mine had dropped and destroyed all the houses. When we moved in, there wasn't a window in the place! I stayed there until I got married in 1957.

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