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I lived at Jump during the war. We always had to carry gas masks with us in a bag.

Dad had an allotment so he grew vegetables for everyone in the street and we were told not to tread on anything in the garden.

I went to St Helen’s Roman Catholic School at Hoyland. They had a shelter and when the siren went the children shouted, “the planes are coming, the planes are coming” and we all went into the shelter.

Our parents did not know what a sweet was because they saved them all for us.

At the end of the war we were still queuing for food but I remember having a party at the end of the war. Everyone was very kind.

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