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During the war I went into the Haywood Hospital for my tonsils out. Looking back the thing that really sticks in my mind is that the ward contained two double beds and there were four of us in each bed, two at the top and two at the bottom. Boys and girls, all mixed together. I do remember out family doctor, Dr Leadingham, coming to visit me in hospital after one day. He did a quick examination and sent me home. Mum and Dad made me up a makeshift bed downstairs. They brought a mattress down and put it under the table. I spent a week under the table in the warmth of the kitchen fire.

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