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Some of the air raid shelters where Dorothy lived in Leeds were home-made, using corrugated iron and bricks. When the sirens wailed, she and her family and their neighbours would take something to eat and drink into the shelter and wait for the all clear to sound. Mam says it was frightening in the shelter so usually someone would start a sing song, to try and lighten the mood a bit and to try and help them forget that there was a war on. She would have been about 12 or 13 years old I think. She remembers that some civilians were killed by the bombs, and some of the Home Guard too. But says the attitude generally was that, "you had to carry on regardless. And you'd get there in the end." She hoped there would never be another war.

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