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I went to school and the air raid sirens went off, I had to hide under the tables. We collected the shrapnel coming home. The women worked then. Where my mum worked they bombed. So I was evacuated to Prestatyn in Wales with two younger brothers. I was evacuated with a lovely lady. My mother never kissed us goodbye.
When we were in London we would have to go to the bottom of the garden in the shelter in our pyjamas. It was cold and damp. We would hear the planes go over.
Prestatyn was a seaside-town. It had sand dunes. All these people chose their evacuee. It was very scary. Mrs Royal was the lady that took me. I went back to Prestatyn and visited her with my children years later.I went to school in Rhyll, they weren't as acidemically ahead as in London; I remember learning the same things twice.
We used to hear the Japanese planes go over and then go silent and count till the blast. Houses were bombed where I lived.

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