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- Bill Whalley
- Location of story:听
- Burnley
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A4167795
- Contributed on:听
- 08 June 2005
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Well, I remember it breaking out, on the day that war broke out, and we all had to stand around the lunchtime table and sing God Save The King.
We were in Burnley, I remember I must have been about seven, it would have been 1940 or 1941 when I was at my Grandmother鈥檚 house, and Armstrong Works was just down the road, and the bomb landed in the next street to where we were, and we were all in an air-raid shelter outside, and I know I got a good hiding for blowing the candle out.
The bomb dropped and we were not scared because being a kid, and going to school carrying your gas mask was all part of the deal. And if you were one of the ones that got a green end on your gas mask first, oh, you weren鈥檛 half a bit swaggering about.
I remember the VE Day celebrations, I鈥檇 have been about twelve or thirteen, and there were lots of street parties, but I don鈥檛 remember the details.
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