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When they declared war we'd seen all the cinema footage in Europe. I was 8 and we worried that German paratroupers would land on Monton Green the next day!! The worst thing for me was when the ARP men came around with gas masks. They were horrible!
You only went to school part time whilst they built the air raid shelters, then we all had to take a woolen blanket which the whole family had helped to knit, to be left at the school to be used at the shelter.
I was absolutely petrified at the first air raid. The sound of the planes, the heavy drone of planes, the different tone of the German planes, was all very chilling.
There were lots of happy times too---plenty of entertainment was organised in the parks, on Sunday evenings there were concerts at the Broadway cinema in Eccles, all the famous stars of the day appeared---Norman Evans and others of that era. One night one of the comedians remarked that the whole of Manchester was lit up from the bombs in Trafford Park and Manchester---but the show went on!! When we came out bombs had dropped in Eccles and we were directed to the shelters---this could have been a near miss.

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