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This story was submitted to the People's War site by Christine Wadsworth of Wakefield Libraries and Information Services
on behalf of Kenneth Auty. It has been added to the site with the permission of the author who fully understands the site terms and conditions.

I was a child of 9, living in Victoria Terrace. The day war was declared I was sitting on top of a muckstack - the pit had been modernising from early days and ran tubs with ponys.

There were blocks of houses - one row were back to backs whilst others had front rooms. I could see people coming out of the houses and going next door then running outside and talking to other people - I knew something was happening, but didn't know what.

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