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I was born 1938 in Liverpool.During the war my dad was an air-raid warden by night and worked on docks by day.My mam worked cleaning air-raid shelters,it was a horrible job as people were not very particular how they behaved when in the shelter so there was a lot to clean up as you can imagine.We had one shelter which ran under the tenement flats which we lived in there was also another shelter across the street.As we lived on the ground floor of the flats my mam hardly ever took us into the shelter when a raid was on so we always was sat under a big kitchen table each given an iron saucepan which we had to put on our heads,we were given the lids and a spoon to beat the lid like a drum and sing with mam so as not to hear the bombs falling.There were four children an mam,we were lucky we all survived the war.

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