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All my family were sitting in our living room in Moses Gate listening to the news and the Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's speech that war had broken out. I was fourteen years old at the time and my mother asked me to take a basket out to my Auntie Polly and to tell her not to be afraid. I walked all the way through Farnworth to Kearsley and I only saw two people, who might have been coal-miners , on the way---this was very unusual since it was a journey of two or three miles which took me through the town centre.
I thought this was very strange at the time, and looking back I still think it was strange.

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