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EDNA O`SHEA

There were tunnels in the hill above Cosham for the people in Portmouth who didn`t have an Anderson shelter. You had a ticket for a numbered bunk whichyou had to have checked every week even if you didn`t sleep there; if you didn`t you lost the right to a bunk. Each evening people came by bus and then trudged past our house with their night things; in the morning they trudged back down the hill. It was like a stream of refugees. I had a cousin who had a bunk and once I went inside with her.I seem to remember that there were shops inside the tunnels - a hairdressers and a place where you could get refreshments.
I didn`t sleep there because we had an Anderson shelter in our garden.
Dad was often away at night working in the docks and my mother got very
frightened. Sometimes we just spent the whole night in the shelter rather than going in and out to the tune of the sirens.

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