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- St Peters Residential Home
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- Georgina_Lawson
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- Wallsend, North Tyneside
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- A2133857
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- 15 December 2003
GEORGINA LAWSON
My name is Georgina Lawson and I am 93 years old living in St Peters Residential Home, North Tyneside.
I lived in Howdon, North Tyneside during World War I. After the Second World War, I got married and had two children.
I remember one night when a bomb hit the ‘Wilkinson Pop Factory’in Wallsend , North Tyneside. A policeman came knocking on the door and we had to go into a shelter. I was nosy and was caught in the garden trying to have a look at what had happened and got wrong.
I worked at the Fish Quay on the north side of the river Tyne, gutting fish and curing them standing for twelve hours a day. We used to serve tea in the ‘Fishermans Mission’ for the fishermen when they came off the boats.
As told to the student’s of Churchill Community College on Friday 28th November 2003.
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