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- Geoff Pattison
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- Stockton
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- A1156079
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- 26 August 2003
To whomever,
My recollection of the first day of the war( second world war) ,I was turned nine the previous July so I was nearly ten when war broke out. Their was going to be an announcement on the wireless by Neville Chamberlain the prime minister at 11’o’clock
It was a sunny day and I was waiting with my jam jar and mesh net, waiting for the big lads to come so we could go to Albert Park and catch some tiddlers.
The big lads being Frank Harper and Howard James, they were thirteen years old so anybody who was four years older than a nine year old was a big lad!
The announcement came and I remember this clearly, all the women came out of the houses, I don’t think there was a man there , because all the men would have been at work, with it being a working class area. All the men would have been at the shipyards and the steel industries. With all this happening I couldn’t go with the big lads. All the women were standing there and my mother was explaining to me that we were now at war. Then she started talking to the rest of the women in the street about what would happen next.
Geoff Patterson Middlesbrough.
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