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- wxmcommunitystudio
- People in story:Ìý
- Eddie Edwards
- Location of story:Ìý
- 'Brymbo, Wrexham'
- Background to story:Ìý
- Civilian
- Article ID:Ìý
- A9020828
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 31 January 2006
I'm Eddie Edwards, and I’m 73 now.
I was in school during the war. I was 7 in 1939. I was in Brymbo School to start with, and then I went to Grove Park Grammar School. I don’t remember that much, funnily enough. We were all issued gas masks, and I remember the drills, but it didn’t affect us that much.
I do remember the planes going over. We all used to go under the stairs at night. Me, my mum, and sometimes my dad as well, just to make sure we were safe. And the blackouts, the ‘cover those windows’, you know.
Dad was at home. He was a driver, and then he was in the steelworks at Brymbo afterwards. That was his war work.
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