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My name is Dilys Davies, and I鈥檓 74 this year.
I still live in the same house in Denbigh that I lived in as a child, during the war. I live at the bottom of the town, on Vale Street.
We had some evacuees from.. I think it was called Holy Lodge school in Liverpool. They were two girls. Unfortunately, we lost contact with them. I think they went to Howells School in Denbigh, but I don鈥檛 remember for how long.
But a mother and daughter came up from Hornchurch in Essex, and they came to Denbigh, to the house, for a couple of years. And I鈥檓 still in contact with the daughter. Her name is Marian Mortimer. We鈥檝e only seen each other a couple of times, but we鈥檝e kept in touch, and we phone from time to time. And she went to school in Fron Goch in Denbigh, with me. Now it鈥檚 the County Court offices. We used to send Christmas presents to each other, but we stopped that, but we still ring every couple of months. I鈥檇 say she鈥檚 quite a good friend, in a distant sort of a way.
They came.. I think it was through a contact. They had friends down in Essex who had family in Denbigh, and they came to Denbigh.. through more of a private situation, not the government. The father worked in the Smithfield in London, and he used to come every couple of months to see them.
We did have some American soldiers in Denbigh, and they used to march up and down the town. They鈥檇 adapted the town hall, and they stayed there.
There were these Nissan huts along Rhyl road, and I don鈥檛 know whether the Americans were there, or if our lads were billeted there.
The other thing I remember is that my father joined the fire service, so he was called out if there was an emergency. We seemed to manage amazingly well.
A lot of evacuees came to the town. Quite a few came from Jersey, and I don鈥檛 know which school they all went to, because they didn鈥檛 come to mine. They possibly went to Howells School too.

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