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When I was a child, during the 2nd World War, I would have been aged about 7 or 8 (born 1935), I remember being taken out of bed to an air-raid shelter which my father had made in the garden. When the air-raid siren went off, usually in the middle of the night in the blackout. We lived in this house in Melling and next to it was the Dunlop Factory, where people worked making things for the war. I remember one very bad air-raid; there was some aeroplanes above the factory, next to where I was in the air-raid shelter. These planes were circling around. As a child I remember seeing them, and my father said they were German planes because he could tell by the drone of the engine. Eventually they did go away. I think they were looking for the Dunlop Factory. That story stands out in my mind, living here in Melling. During the war, it may have been 1941-42, but I remember the sirens and the 'all clear', when you came out of the shelter. I remember the war going on for quite a few years. Then VE Day, there was bonfires lit and a childrens party; I would then be about age 10.

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