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My family were living in Frinton at the beginning of the war. I was just nine years old in June 1940, when my sister and I were evacuated to Stroud in Gloucestershire. We did not want to be separated and it was difficult to find a family who would take us in. I remember arriving at around midnight and being billeted with an old lady who wasn't very nice. The next day we both just cried on the green until the vicar came and took us to his house. Eventually we were moved to a family who were kind to us.
A year later we were told that we could be sent away to Canada so our parents moved us back home. By that my father had found a house for the family in Braintree and so we moved there and I have lived in the town ever since.

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