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Earliest memory the street lights were being dismantled, light bulbs removed and the air sirens tested. I was five and in my parents bed poorly but remember this vividly. The evacuees came by train.

I'm one of nine children on a farm in Brackley Northants. Mother was told she didn't have to have any evacuees but she said she couldn't leave them crying and took three to start with, then two more. Two were very small and have recently been in touch. We had 2 tables in the kitchen for 18 people every meal. We never went short of food with all the rations for that lot and by living on a farm.

We were surrounded by aerodromes; Turweston, Finmere, Hinton, Upper Haven, SIlverstone, Chipping Earden. It's amazing that we weren't blown off the earth there were so many.

The aircraft could be seen taking off on the bombing runs to German from the air feilds. We would see them go out and we'd try to see them return the next morning.
Not many did. Even so this was exciting for me as a child I'll never forgot V.E Day. I went up into the attic and put the union flag at the window on a pole and broke the window! Nobody minded because it was so exciting!

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