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This story was submitted to the People's War Site by Rachel Tyas of Burntwood school on behalf of V.Hoyland.
I was seven when the war began, I lived in a terraced house with my parents, brother and two sisters, our back garden bordered onto a railway which received a hit from an oil bomb but no one was injured. Our street was quite lucky but the next street received a direct hit from a bomb during heavy air raid and complete houses were destroyed and many people killed.
My father did not go into the forces as he had a bad heart but he did fire watching most nights after working all day. My mother was an air raid warden for our street, which we thought was funny, to see her in her tin hat making sure that every house had their blackout curtains drawn so that no light was showing through the windows.
When the siren went we had to go to the shelter which had been built in the street.
I did not get evacuated until June 1944 when the V1 planes (Doodle Bugs)started, then I went with my sisters and brother to a small village in Wales where my mother lived when she was a child. We lived with my mother's cousin and had a great time as it was summer and we did not have to go to school!

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