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My family originally lived in Liverpool. My grandparents ran a pub near the docks there. My Mum was evacuated to Wrexham. My Grandmother had to travel from Liverpool to Wrexham to see my Mum. She would do it in all weathers, which was a bit scary as she had to walk over an aqueduct in Proncysylite. My Mum must have liked the family she was evacuated to because for many years she kept in touch with them; exchanging Christmas cards etc. I also had a Grandma who lived in Leicester, she had an Italian Prisoner of War to stay.

My Dad was in the fleet air arm in the Navy. The war took him all over the world to Australia, Sri Lanka which was then known as Ceylon. He worked on aircraft carriers repairing spitfires. I can remember him showing me a picture of a spitfire that had nose-dived on to the deck of an aircraft carrier.

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