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This story was told to Christine Barker at the VE Celebrations in Beverley in 2005
Beverley by Elizabeth Atkinson (nee McLean)

For some of the war we left Hull and we went to my dad鈥檚 brothers in West Hartlepool. I stayed a while but all the time I wanted to come home to Hull, I didn鈥檛 really like being there. I wanted to be at home in Hull even if I had to risk the bombs. With my husband away doing the anti aircraft work I was lonely up there. I stayed a year then came back. My mum followed me back a while after. Before she came me and dad had come right through the middle of Hull. He wanted to move from where we were living and we were trying to get furniture the to my Grandmas. Well we came in right in the two nights of the blitz, and what a mess Hull was, it was really awful. But we survived and I鈥檝e been through the mill since and at 88 I鈥檓 still here!

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