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We were in Burton-on-Trent which was considered a relatively safe area and people were evacuated here. Our school was closed from September when we should have gone back after the holidays, until November, as they building air raid shelters. They were the sort of shelters that were above the ground. We had an anderson shelter in the garden which my father built but we never used it because it always had about a foot of water in it. we had a cupboard under the stairs and that was supposed to be the safest place so we used to crowd in there. I remember being so terrified that I sat with my thumbs in the gas mask straps ready to put it on the minute we got a warning of gas. You took your gas mask everywhere, in a brown cardboard box. Some of the boys had a tin for theirs which they swung round. i was hot by one being swung round in the school yard and had to have two stiches in my eyebrow!

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