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I was about 10 years old when war was declared. I was still at Wingrove Primary School.I was not evacuated, I stayed at home with my parents. My father was exempt from service because he worked at Vickers Armstrong on Scotswood Road, in the Armaments Department, making bombs, tanks and heavy machinery for the soldiers. My mother stayed at home to car for the family.
We didn't have an air raid shelter, the nearest was in Agricola Road, and it only housed about ten folk. My eldest brother Gavin was in the RAF, stationed in France as an electrical engineer. I remember the blackout, we sat around the wireless listening for any news we could get. If the aeroplanes sounded close by my mother made us sit downstairs, we could hear all the noise going on outside. A friend had a Morrison shelter which was a shelter you could use indoors, it was like a big wire cage that you had to lie in.

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