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This story was contributed by Jack on behalf of John Layton

When the war started I was 8, my whole school which was in Holloway London, was evacuated to Ware in Hertfordshire. I stayed with a very nice family but there were 10 children there! So we all slept in two double beds, five in one and five in the other it was an awful squeeze, but I didnt mind. Then my evacuee mother got pregnant and they couldnt have me there aswell as the baby. So I moved to another family in Ware. There were only two children there this time so it wasnt such a squeeze. I was happy there for a while. When I looked out the window at night I could see my home, London, being bombed, it was quite scary.Unfortunately my evacuee Dad got hit by a bus and this family couldn't look after me either. So I was moved back to London With my Grandma because my Dad was in the RAF and my mum was busy making tents for soldiers. Life at school was good we had lessons in the corridors because that was the safest place.In 1944 when the germans started sending over buzz bombs, which were bombs which would make a buzzing sound whilst it was flying and then it would stop making the sound and the bomb would fall. One of these fell a few hundred yards away from me I was really scared, so I was evacuated again to Nottingham. Here I stayed with a nice family again they had 4 children one of them, the youngest, had a diseased knee and one of them always wore a cap, I never saw him without a hat. After the war me and my friends would be playing in the street and a boy would come running down the street shouting "number 42 got ice cream" and me and my freinds would all run to number 42 with our little bit of money and get an ice cream. War was the most exciting time of my life!

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