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Maureen was eight when the war broke out. She had seven in her family including her. She lived in the Shankill. She had two brothers and two sisters who died during the war. When the war started her house was bombed.
Their bunker was broken, the metal had slid out of place and it needed fixing. The air raid alarm went off so they had to run into the fields because of the broken bunker. They did not know that the fields where called the bombing grass. This was because it was were most of the bombs landed. So they had to scatter from there and find somewhere else to hide.

As told to Devon Lemon
27/5/04

Barbara lived in Stranmillis, Belfast and was six when the war started. She was twelve when it ended and is now seventy two. When an air raid started Barbara and her sister went into the living room to hide under the table. There was a hole in the table and there they used to squeeze through. There are walls all around the table and one hole for them to go through. She described the siren as up and down, when the air raid was over the siren was long and shrill. She said that the table is in her brothers house now.

As told to Dawn Robinson
Strand Primary School
June 2004

Barbara was 6 when the war started she was 12 when it ended. She lived in Stranmillis with her sister. Barbara and her sister were evacuated to their grandparents in Annaghmore. They had to go to the local school but when they found out that the teachers caned you they then refused to go, so their mother had to teach them but they mostly played.

AS told to Devon Lemon,
Dawn Robinson,
And Barbara Dalgarno

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