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I remember being evacuated at about the age of 5. We had to go to St. Chad's Infant School and a coach came for us and took us to Belper. We were sent off with a bar of chocolate and a tin of condensed milk. We stood and waitied to be claimed. My sister was with me so she was the boss. The family I stayed with had a huge kitchen table. One day I was playing under it and ended up getting splashed on my shoulders and chest with chip fat so I was sent home. I never found out what happenned to the chocolate and condensed milk.

We lived on Normanton Road, in Derby. I remember waking up one morning to find we had no windows.I don't know what had happenned. I was taken to the infirmary and the put sticking plaster all over my chest. When they took it off it was very painful.

We also had half a day off school when they dropped a bomb on Derby station.

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