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Mrs. Tanner lived in London as a girl and was evacuated to Rotherham in Yorkshire during the war when she was only four months old. At the age of four she started school; boys and girls were split up into different classes. There was a coal fire at school. As well as ordinary school Mrs. Tanner went to Sunday school in the afternoon every Sunday. Children had to wear gas masks which she thought made them look like Mickey Mouse. Mrs. Tanner liked playing in the shelter even when there wasn't an air raid. She also played in the road as there weren't many cars.
For Christmas her and her friends only got card games, skipping ropes, spinning tops or marbles. People still used nit combs and they also had nit nurses in schools. If you had nits you got sent home from school. There were no sweets, nuts, fruit or butter and very little jam so people planted vegetables
Windows had black out curtains at them and you had to be careful because of spies but Mrs. Tanner didn't know what a spy was. There were two types of bombs, one for destroying things and a weaker one for starting fires. The German planes came over at night and the River Thames boats were a target. We sent bouncing bombs to the Germans.
There were no wedding dresses or cakes and you had to knit your own wedding dress. Although they had gramophones there was no telly or coffee or crisps but she never got bored.
Mrs. Tanner and all of her friends were really happy when the war ended so everyone had a party.

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