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There was a lady and her husband in Eccleston park, who were retired, they had a massive house and opened it to us, there was six of us; mum cleaned for them. Ands she was with the WRVS; she got us knitting allsorts. How she did it, I don鈥檛 know; cuffs, scarves 48 inches long, balaclava helmets, gloves, socks; she taught us how to use four needles. We used to take wool into school and the teachers would do it. We鈥檇 take all the stuff on the bus. Even my granddad, who at the time was seventy-six, would curl strips of newspaper and go round with an old pram to collect old sheets and pillowcases to make limb rests stuffed with the newspaper for the wounded. That was our effort for the war, because we were too young. But it was good, we started with six and ended with seventy.

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