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This story was related to Denis Price of the 大象传媒 People's War Team at the 大象传媒 Open Centre, Hull.

My recollections of war time as a small boy would be the different houses our family lived in due to the bombing. I was four when the war began and we lived down Thomas Street, Drypool. We always said there were more rats than kids. We could hear them scratching every night. I think we had a lot of them because the timber yards such as Horsley Smith and Hollis's further up towards Craven Street were so near.
We were bombed out of Thomas Street but luckily we were all in the public communal air raid shelter opposite our house. We then were re-housed in Merrick Terrace just off Thomas Street only to be bombed out again in 1941. Again we were all lucky and were re-housed in Bilton Grange at 67 Brandsby Grove, an almost new house. Dad was away in North Africa serving in the Royal Engineers, he came home in 1945.
My schooling had begun at Williamson Street School off Holderness Road, then Hopewell Road School and finishing off at Maybury Road.
I was nine years old when the war ended and for me and many others of my age it was all a big adventure. We didn't have sweets but instead we got cinnamon sticks from the chemist which you either ate or smoked!

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