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This story was submitted to the Peoples War website by Mike Kerins on behalf of Margaret Freeman and has been added to the site with her permission.

I remember mostly the queues when I was a child. We used to go to the horse meat shop. Not for ourselves but for the cats food.
When we got home we would boil the horse meat on the old black range and I remember the smell was terrible.
I never ate meat myself, even as a child but I remember the queues when the word went around that fruit were available.
My mother was so pleased when the Americans were bombed at Pearl Harbour as she knew then that they would goin the war. My father had been in the First World War but we had no immediate family in the services in this one.
I remember a bomb being dropped near us one night and we had to leave. We went into a nearly pub but the landlord wouldn鈥檛 let us stay as I was too young to be in the pub.
In Hollinwood in 1941 Mr Wiseman came back from the war on leave. He drowned saving a child from the Mill Lodge, but because he was on leave his widow received no pension from his death. She gave away her daughter to my auntie and uncle who eventually adopted Betty and she became Betty Travis. She would have been about six at the time. I always thought that the incident was very strange.

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