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When the war started and I was living in Towlow, when I was only about 2 or 3. I lived at the top of a hill. At the bottom was Woolsingham Steelworks, the main factory where I lived. This was why the bombers came. A fleet of German bombers came to bomb the Steel factory. All I could hear was the exploding bombs and the engines spluttering. But the scary thing was the sirens; they made me realise what was happening and what could happen. I looked around for my mother, and I suppose she was looking for me as well, but I couldn鈥檛 find her. I hid in the first place I found, under the stairs. Quite a pathetic place now, but brilliant when you are 3. After a while the bombings stopped along with the sirens, and my mother, found out where I was hiding, brought me out and told me everything was all right. It was the scariest (and loudest!) experience of my life.

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