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We lived in a village called Huntington about three miles outside York.At the village school where we went, we got a lot of evacuees. Being a small village school it wasn't big enough for us all, so until the village hall was sorted out we only went to school half days. We (the local kids) went to school in the morning and the evacuees went in the afternoon. The school was for all ages. Infant, junior and senior. I think there were four classrooms in the whole school and the teacher used to walk up and down to the different classes. If the sirens went off for an air raid the older childen, 10 and above had to each get an infant child and go to one of the houses in the village because the school did not have a shelter.

In the last year of my schooling Joseph Rowntree had a new senior school built in his new village which was called New Earswick. I left school at age 14 and went to work in a button factory.

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