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My third baby was born October 28th 1939. When he was a few months old he developed pneumonia. The doctor tried him with ground-up tablets mixed with his food but he couldn鈥檛 swallow it, so he said he would buy a new, which he hadn鈥檛 tried before. It was an injection in his bottom and it was like a miracle. After twenty-four hours he turned the corner and he soon recovered to good health. The drug was M & B. When he was too big for his cot I had to apply for dockets to be able to buy a bed and blankets for him.

There was a neighbour of ours took lodgers in. During the war she had an elderly couple, refugees from the Channel Islands. Some Welshmen came to work at the Barugh Chemical Works; they were experimenting on how to make solid fuel out of coal dust. Some men, who worked for the War Agriculture Co., also lived there.

We lived in a friendly neighbourhood, and my husband had been called up for service in the army in 1940 and was sent to the Middle East after three months training and didn鈥檛 get home leave until 1945, so me and my children were well cared for.

I joined a knitting circle; we knitted socks, gloves and balaclava helmets for the Russians.

I suppose I should have started with this memory. 鈥淥n the morning of 3 September 1939 I was mixing Yorkshire Puddings for the Sunday dinner when there was a news flash on the radio, Neville Chamberlain announced we were at war with Germany.

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