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My first memories is as a toddler walking from my Uncle's farm, which was in Birch, to Heywood during the night time. My Mother turned and said "There is Manchester burning". The whole spectrum of the horizon was alight with flames.
I also remember being very scared , as a toddler, when I had to try on a gas mask.
My parents moved away from Manchester to the West Coast of Cumberland. My parents worked in an Ammunition Factory. They had to start very early in the morning. I remember being woken up on a cold, dark, winter morning to be bundled into a push chair and dressed in a siren suit. I was always the first infant to be dropped off in the morning, I was tired, cold scared and unhappy as I sat alone waiting to be joined by the other children.
At the end of the war I was handed an alien object; a banana! I had no idea what to do with it.
I recall being told about and having visits by my two uncles, one being in the Navy and the other in the R.A.F. My Grandmother did not know where they were stationed. However I also had a third uncle, through marriage, who was in the Admiralty, who actually knew where my sailor uncle was. He could not disclose his knowledge of the sailors whereabouts. This was very hard for my Grandmother but very neccessary for the security of the country.

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