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I was evacuated on 1st September, 1939, with my sister. I was 10 years old and she was 8 years old. We were pupils at Anfield Road School and were taken in groups from the school and left by train from Clubmoor Station to Borth, then by coach to Bangor where we went to a chapel hall where there was a group of Welsh ladies ready to "choose."

A Mrs. Richards "chose" my sister and I and took us to a cottage, one of three, we lived in the middle one which was banked by a pub and the local blacksmith.

We were with her for 3 1/2 years.

We went to school in a local church hall. We had proper lessons and it was there that I took my scholarship. Learning the Welsh language was easy- we learned the Lords Prayer and Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.

The people we lived with did not have any children at home, they were wonderful to us. After 8-10 days our parents arrived by coach to visit, the longest time being 2 hours due to the long journey. We were both very homesick but knew that we were being well cared for. It was then that my mum decided she would start to organise weekly coach trips for parents to be able to visit their children regularly. I had two brothers also who were evacuated to North Wales and our parents visited them mid-week.

Our "family" in Wales looked after us very well. We had fresh milk, butter etc and as their parents had a farm, a couple of miles away, the walk to visit them two miles away brought more exciting times.

On some visits, my parents had the task of breaking bad news to evacuated children, that their parents had died in the May Blitz in Liverpool.

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