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Manchester High School (Margaret Reeve)

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I was at the Manchester High School for all the war years and I was evacuated with the school to Cheshire to Warehouseman and Clarke鈥檚 School at Cheadle Hulme.
I only stayed there until Easter 1940 when I returned home to Didsbury and cycled until our new school was built at Grangethorpe, Manchester.
The school then had a land mine dropped on it during the Christmas holiday, so we had to go into large houses in Didsbury where I took my School Certificate Examinations in the attic of a large house in Barlowmoor Road, Didsbury. Later in another school we took over, I took the Higher School Certificate at school and a Pre-Nursing course at Manchester Technical College. I then went to the Royal Manchester Children鈥檚 Hospital from December 1945 to 1949.

I remember the Manchester Blitz. Also, a barrage balloon came over and the chains broke our bedroom windows.
I was also shot at by a German reconnaissance plane when I returned to the school at Grangethorpe to get my books from the broken class rooms. I remember travelling from Manchester up to Bute to stay in the August holidays with my father鈥檚 cousin. My sister and I travelled on our own. The trains were full of troops. We watched the troops landing on the beaches ready for the D- Day landings.

Margaret Reeve

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