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It was really wonderful to hear Winston Churchill say in May 1945 that "our dear Channel Islands will be free today". It so happened that on that day we had a chimney fire and were in a real mess.

At school we started learning lots of new songs and we gave a Victory Concert in a large Hall down in the Town itself with other Bradford Schools.

We received our tickets to come home and did so in June 1945. We travelled down in the train and on to Southampton and joined the "Hantonia". We were absolutely crammed in and laid wherever we could. It didn't matter we were going home! My father had permission to go on the White Rock itself and was there to greet us. We had left the Island as little children and came home as a young man and young ladies. I was then taller than my mother.

My Dad had a home all ready for us at "Waverley", Les Amballes and my Gran Carre was there waiting for us. Pamela and I had an attic bedroom with a distant view of the sea - absolute bliss. Ronald had the back attic with a small window in the roof. A bed at last after three years of sleeping on the floor. My parents together after all those years of parting.

The next years would take a bit of adjustment but it was wonderful to be together again although we would never forget the kindness of the Yorkshire people we had met.

Jean Taylor, Pamela Gavey

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