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Along with thousands of other children in Britain at that time, to avoid the bombing we were evacuated. I lived with a family, the Andersons in Padiham, Lancashire. I was only about six or seven. I was brought home, during the war. I remember Manchester being bombed, because I had been sent back there. When we came back, we were learning our two times table. We severely missed out on education, and all the best teachers had been called up for the army. There were posters that showed things that looked like toys and they were telling us not to pick them up because they were thrown by the Germans. Our school, Plymouth Grove adopted a norweigan ship, and the captain came to visit us. When the war ended some teachers came back from the war. We also got trainee teachers who had been in the army, and they were not good as teachers. The standard of handwriting went down. The school I went to came to Victoria baths evry week. When I left school I became a messenger boy at 15, and it had a messenger boys club, and you paid a penny a week, and got a card and the card got you into any swimming baths in Manchester.

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