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"My father had like a table shelter. You could get probably six people under it, but you had to sort of crouch down. It was about three feet high. The outdoor one was called [changes subject]. I think they called that [the indoor, table shelter] the Morrison shelter, after Lord Morrison that brought it in. But my father had their sitting room all sured up, reinforcements and that sort of thing, which they used mostly. But the Anderson shelter the council provided those, but they used to be so damp in the winter time, everything would sort of be soggy, and ooh horrible. I had a flat, you see when I was bombed out, I forget what happened. I went to, when I was bombed out it took some time to do the repairs on the houses. I went and stayed with my parents, and the furniture was in store, and it really wasn鈥檛 a good thing with the children and that sort of thing. It was a bit overcrowded. I went to the Local Authority to see if I could get something, get my furniture out of store, and I did get a flat. I had to take sort of part-time work to help pay the rent of it as well, because my own house, when they repaired it they put a family in it, more people than just myself and two little boys. Anyhow, I had this flat, and they sured under the stairs and made that safe. We were having our lunch one Saturday and the siren went, and Bruce took his lunch under the stairs, but Keith wouldn鈥檛. He wasn鈥檛 afraid. He sat on on his own and finished his lunch. If there was a thunderstorm he would go and get underneath the settee. He was petrified on thunderstorms, yet he wouldn鈥檛 do anything about bombing, he鈥檇 鈥渙h well鈥�, 鈥渟o be it鈥� was his attitude鈥�
鈥淚f you dared show a light they鈥檇 be after you straight away. You鈥檇 have curtains 鈥� you know all these things you had to buy 鈥� my father had sort of fittings made to his windows inside of, like hardboard stiff on batons and they used to put it up into the windows, flat on the windows."

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