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I and my twin sister were only five years old when the war started, as we were quite young it didnt really affect us in the beginning.
After a year or so the bombing became more intense, so we were sent away to Mistley in Essex, which is on the Essex coastline. We went to live with a really lovely family, there was always plenty to eat, we had clean sheets, and a healthy lifestyle.
Unfortunately Mistley is quite near to the port of Harwich, which the Germans were bombing. So we were sent back home to Chingford.
We was then sent away to Stoke on Trent, and the two places were a complete contrast, this I must say was the worst experience of our young lives. The family was awful, we were like unpaid servants, you see the people who took us in were only interested in the money that the govenment was paying them to take evacuees in. The only time we had sheets on our beds was when our parents came to visit us, which was not very often as it was a long way away. There was a American army base near where we were staying, and when they gave us chocolate the woman took it away from us and gave it to her own children and we didnt get any. We had a awful time there.
When we eventually went back to Chingford and the war was ending we had a really nice VE party, with lots to eat, who knows where it all came from though.
We had a really hard time during those years, when the war ended we were 11 years of age.
Not much of a childhood was it.

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