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First of all we were sent away on the evacuation before the war broke out, we only went on the Friday and the following Tuesday we were back home because my mother came to see us. When we got to Barthemly we were all put tighter in this big hall and all these people came and picked us out like cattle. My mother came on the Tuesday to see were we were and the lady didn鈥檛 invite her into her home. When we got to the house my mother told us to pack are bags because the lady didn鈥檛 invite her into her home, so we did and left. We came home then and then my mother went to see were my brother was, and he was on a farm and he didn鈥檛 want to return home. He stayed there for a couple of weeks but me mother went up one night and brought my brother home. We were home a couple of weeks and week got bombed out, we were amongst the first to be bombed in Merseyside. We were out playing in the cemetery and it was pure daylight when we got bombed and after the bombs fell the sirens started going off. One plane was very low, you could see the head of the pilot and when we got home the house next to ours had been bombed so we had to spend the night in St Martins Hall in Scotland Road. Then we stayed there till the next morning and then we all left to live in Huyton with my mum鈥檚 sister. We were there until we were accommodated a flat in Portling Gardens which the flats weren鈥檛 completed. We stayed there until me sister, brother and I were evacuated to Church Stretton, and we were there for a few years until all the bombing had finished and then we came home. While we were in Church Stretton all the evacuees were invited into the town hall with the soldiers and we had tea, this was a most pleasant time. While we were there, the May blitz was on and all around us we lost a lot of friends. If all the bombs had gone of around us around us we certainly wouldn鈥檛 have survived because a lot of bombs didn鈥檛 go off. My grandmother was bombed out and she had to go and live in Norris Green.

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