- Contributed by听
- Stockport Libraries
- People in story:听
- Sheila Colman
- Location of story:听
- Manchester/Derbyshire
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A4608047
- Contributed on:听
- 29 July 2005
This story was submitted to the People's War website by Karolina Kopiec, a volunteer for 大象传媒 GMR, on behalf of Sheila Cox and has been added to the website with her permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.
I was only seven years old when the war started, and I was evacuated from Manchester to Derbyshire. I had to separate from my parents. I wasn't there for long because I wasn't very happy with the family there, so my mum decided to take me to my grandmother.
I came back to Burnage, Manchester, when I was eleven, and I went back to school. I finished school and started working when I 14. A year earlier my father died, just aroung D-Day.
I didn't have many happy times during the war. - Maybe except when I was off school...
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