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I have very different memories of the war as I lived both in Newcastle and in a hamlet on the Yorkshire Moors.

My husband was in the army and I lived in Newcastle with our baby. We were bombed every night. I put our baby in the pram in the pantry and I laid down beside the pram. We seemed to be bombed every night at 10 o鈥檆lock. My neighbours were really good and used to knock on the pantry wall from their pantry next door. The neighbours used to shop for me, as you had to queue for 20 minutes for 1 tin of food.

We moved to Yorkshire when my son was 2. We had a cottage in a small hamlet near Pickering. My father lived nearby and he kept bees, chickens, goats and a pig. He called each week and bought me eggs. I had to do my shopping in the nearby village, but you had to go over a very steep hill to get to it, the hill was a 1 in 3. In winter a sledge was tied to a shire horse to fetch the groceries from the village. Father didn鈥檛 call in the winter. Village life was very quiet and a lot better than Newcastle.

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