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This story was submitted to the People's War site by Lisa Barker on behalf of Mary Durkin and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.

I was only three when the War started. When I was about five, I remember going to Barrow-In-Furness to visit my aunt and uncle during the school holidays. There was my mam, dad, my two elder sisters, Clara and Hilda, and my younger sister, Doreen, who was just a baby at the time. We couldn鈥檛 afford the price of the train. Instead, my dad bought platform tickets to get us in and out of the station. At the other end, my Uncle Stan would meet us, again with platform tickets, and so we got on and off without paying the full fare, otherwise, we would never have got away.

There was always a big barrage balloon at Barrow鈥檚 railway station. Uncle Stan didn鈥檛 live far away from the shipyard. He worked there too. I can remember looking up at the sky one night and it was just full of barrage balloons to protect the shipyard.

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