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This story was submitted to the People's War site by Jenny Christian of the 2nd Air Division Memorial Library and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.

My mother thought that bombs looked like milk bottles because of the shape!

I was at the Blythe School, which was only for girls. On the way to school, if the siren went, you had to get off the bus and go into the nearest shelter straight away. You might have to spend the whole day there, and sometimes we never got to school!

I slept in a beer-cellar during the war, as my parents kept a public house. My father had the cellar reinforced and we had bunk-beds down there. We slept amongst the beer-barrels!

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