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My war was a very quite one except for one experience which was exciting but-non-fatal! The German bombers mistook our little village in Cumbria for Barrow-in-Furness to the north of us. They dropped scores of high explosives but they all fell on the moors and no one was hurt — I was a schoolgirl at the time, but I helped my mother polish off what was left of our last bottle of whiskey as the house shook!!

Pat Copeland aged 79

As related to Steve Lamb, Gateshead Council@Blaydon

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