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I lived in Winchester during the war. When I was 5 we had evacuees. We had boys from Portsmouth-secondary school children. They used to tease me. We couldn't have had more than 2 because we only had a 2 bedroomed council house. I can't remember how we slept, but they must have had one bedroom. My mother had to go to a school to pick up extra blankets for them. Boys and girls had to go to school separately-either in the mornings or the afternoons. Because of all the evacuees there were too many children for everyone to go for a full day. It was a very free life for the evacuees. They had plenty of time to play out.

We were lucky. We weren't bombed. We had an air raid shelter indoors. I believe it was called a Morrison shelter. It was similar to a cage with a metal top. My mother used to sleep with her head outside of it so it wouldn't have been much good. We used the top as a table with a table cloth over it.

I remember national margerine and buying 6d worth of pear drops. My mother made all our clothes. Ihad an orange dress with whitespots and my baby brother had a romper suit made out of the same material. There was a terrific community spirit during the war. A lady collected money to use for trips out.

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