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I was seven years old when the war began and I was in hospital shortly afterwards.
I had an infection / blood poisoning in the marrow of the bone and it spread all over.
The air raid wardens sat either side of me and stayed with me in the hospital during the sirens as I couldn't go into the shelter.
There were quite a few air raids whilst I was there.
I was in Loughborough Hospital.

My dad worked at the quarry at Mount Sorrel. Mum was at home. There were 6 children. I was the second eldest.

I remember we didn't get oranges and bananas until after the war. My dad kept three allotments and chickens so we were alright.
There were ration books for sweets but we didn't get any until after the war.
Dad had the cheese as he did manual work.

We had parades and a May Pole and parties after the war was finished.
There was a party at the quarry at the end of the war.
We all paraded together and then split off and we went to the quarry and the other children went onto the churches.
It was a very close community.

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