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We were evacuated to Skelmersdale into very poor accommodation at first, perhaps the owner was looking to make a profit. But we were soon moved to Ennerdale in Cumberland with relatives, we were pretty miserable and missed our parents.
We were put in a local school. One day it snowed so heavily that we were told to go home early, as we were walking a blizzard struck and we became trapped under the snow, I might not be here today if a farmer who was passing hadn鈥檛 found us and got us out!
After that we went back to Liverpool to our parents during the May blitz, not long after a bomb dropped on a house just 50 yards away from our house, it blew out all the windows but we were lucky because it had landed on soft ground which had absorbed the brunt of the blast.
As children during the war the full impact of what was happening didn鈥檛 really sink in so most of my memories are happy ones. We were fed on peanut butter and I really enjoyed apples and I used to collect shrapnel and sell jam jars.

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