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This story has been contributed by Val Potter of Age Concern, Hellifield. It was originally contributed to Age Concern in 1990.

When the war started, billeting began and Mrs Fishwick was asked to take in a brother and sister from Bradford. One day, her husband took the boy down to the Auction Mart to see the cows being sold. When they came home, the boy said "We've been watching them tame the cows"! Another day, Mrs Fishwick took them to Blackburn. Her husband, who worked on the railway, was on nights and still in bed. Unknown to her, the boy put the catch on the door at the foot of the stairs and, when her husband got up, he could not get out. He had to climb out of the window!
When the authorities started billeting airmen, the Fishwicks were asked to have one. They did but only for a short time. Later, Mrs Fishwick got a certificate from the Queen acknowledging what she had done.
Her son had two years service in the R.A.O.C. Her husband was a Special Constable and had to go round evry night checking if anyone had a light showing - If they did, he had to knock them up and tell them so.

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