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I was 5 when the war started and my family were lucky because houses near our home were bombed.

A group of young children including me went round the houses collecting salvage and material that people did`nt want to help the war effort. This included vegetable peelings that went to feed the pigs. We took all of our stuff to Mrs Walkers house from were it would be collected.

Children would also come to our house for lessons because for a while the school was closed. The headmistress came to the house at Christmas with bars of Cadburys milk chocolate which was a real treat.

When we returned to school, if the air raid siren sounded we had to run back home if we were on our own side of Queens Drive. If we had crossed over we had to run to the school and go the the shelter in the house next to the school.

I remember winning a raffle in school during the war years. The prize was a duck egg and two onions which my mother was delighted with.

I can remember the ammunition train at Clubmoor being bombed. The force of the blast took out my mothers bedroom window frame and left the curatins blowing in the wind out side.

When the war was over, my friend Pat and I wept and we all celebrated with a big party for all the people in the area.It was a great party.

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