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I was seven at the start of the war. I was evacuated to Caistor in Lincolnshire for about eighteen months, but when I returned to Leeds there were lots of bombs. Fowlers in Leeds used to make Tanks; it was a great adventure watching them roll out of the factory and down the street to the railway goods yard. One of my greatest ambitions was to watch the fires after the raids. It used to be marvellous to see the great fires. I went to school in Armley and the back wall of the school was the back wall of Armley jail. Opposite the front entrance of the school was a row of terraced houses. One day we went to school and two of the houses had been completely removed. It was great scrambling about the rubble, but not so good if you were inside the houses.

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