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I was a child at School during the War, somewhere between Blackpool and Preston. I can remember the Air Raid Shelters and how, as a child I loved to go into them.

In the classroom there was a device which acted as an Alarm. This consisted of a light which would flash if there was a raid and a little hammer.

The child who was sitting at the desk where the alarm was would take hold of the hammer and start to bang it if the light flashed. This was the signal that we should go the the shelter.

What a commotion - each of us had a number of which shelter we should go to. On hearing the hammer, we would all leave our desks and run to our allocated number, where the teacher would be waiting.

I loved the shelter because when we got there we were given a lollipop. Lessons carried on as normal, whatever we were doing continued in the dim light of the shelter, but it was all the more enjoyable - because of the lolly!!!

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