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I was born in December 1928 in Crumpsall Manchester so I was 10 years old when war was declared. I was eveacuated with my brother who was 2years older than me. We went to a Langho a mill town in Lancashire. My mother was also sent to a house nearby with my two sisters, one aged 7 and the other 7months.

I remember going to the railway station with my brother and lots of other children. I was very excited, it was going on holiday. We had lables with our names on them attched to our clothes.

We were taken to a large hall and people would come in and choose the one they wanted. At last only my brother and I were left standing there until a lady came in and said she would have us. Not many people wanted two children especially a boy and a girl. She was very nice to us. I slept with one of her older daughters.

My father took us all back back home befor X,masa as nothing was happening.

We spent many a night in a brick airraid shelter afterwards, I remember it as very cold and boreing until the night of the Manchester Blitz.

I stood in the street which was on a hill with a very good view of the flames and smoke coming from the city, My school; Manchester Central High, was in Whitworth Street. In the cenre of town.

Next morning I went off to school and walked from the bus stop past tall blackened warehouses still smouldering with empty windows. I did feel frightened, it looked like a ghost town. I arrived at school to find it all intact and nearly everyone turned up and school went on as usual.

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