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“Money was in very short supply during World War 2. There was no work and people were a lot friendlier on the street and people pulled together during the World War 2.”

Susan Dale remembers her family and other families’ starting to set up bomb shelters which she remembers the make of the shelters being ANDERSONS. She remembers a great deal about recruitment going on too.

She remembers being a little unhappy when some of her school friends were evacuated.

Susan said that she could literally feel the devastation around at the time of the Blitz as people could see houses blown to bits. She remembers a house was being blown up just 8 houses down the street when she was at school and the sirens went off. She always
remembers when she came home from school one day and listening to the radio to hear that a German aeroplane had crashed into the River Tyne.

For Susan’s family the rule was that if the family had no ration coupons they had to go without. They could have lots of money but with no coupons but it was worthless. The working class people were always poor during the war whilst the middle-class was managed ok.

She remembers the games children played during WWII as being were ‘I spy’, Ludo, Snakes and Ladders and that they were often told stories on the dark, cold winter nights.

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