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My mother was in the WRVS during the war. And when the Channel Island’s evacuees came over she distributed them to the different families. There were two: Phyllis and Hazel, they were sisters she didn’t want to separate them. But unfortunately they fought like cat and dog so Hazel went to another house. She kept Phyllis because she was the same age as me. I’ve still got photographs I’ve got Phyllis’s address but she didn’t write back to me which I was upset about really.
And Dad was also an air raid warden, he was based in the village and he used to go around and make sure people’s curtains were closed and things like that you know. And then there was the guns, when there was a raid on, we could hear the shots because they would be firing over to Liverpool you see, over our house and we could hear the shot going down the roof. I remember going to school with my gas mask.
I don’t have an awful terrific amount of memories, probably because I want to put it in the back of my mind.

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