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I've lived in Port Erin all my life ... I think we did very well during the war, because my grandma had a little shop and we had a market garden ... but one thing that always amazed me was that if you came down to Port Erin by road you had to bring your ID card ... but we could nip across the golf course from Bradda and no one would bat an eyelid.

And so many things were allowed to pass. We had the market garden with chickens and other produce ... and we'd send a box of items to my grandma in Douglas every Monday on the train ... and she would send stuff back to us from the pork butchers on a Saturday ... and there was never any questions asked about what was in the boxes ... this went on throughout the war.

I can remember a bomb being dropped in Baldwin. I was staying at my grandmothers and heard the bomb going over. And it fell on farmland and fortunately it didn't hit anyone.

As children, the war didn't make much difference to us on the Isle of Man ... we still played, went to school. We had a very charmed wartime.

But I do remember the barriers ... around the internment camp. My father was an ARP and in charge of the coast guard. And the phone used to ring, and he'd go charging out ... I had no idea where he was going and when you're a child, you don't question!

I've still got my original ID card and my ration card ...

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