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Mrs M Rimmer was appointed as a Billeting Officer for the County Borough of Blackpool on 31 August 1939. It...
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We all took shelter in other guests' bedrooms while the landlady remade the beds... We still had all...
I can remember us waiting for the air raid siren to go and my dad would wrap me in a blanket and...
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We had German and Italian prisoners of war to help with the work. There were wartime recipes on the radio...
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Who but a "saint" would take 6 tired, hungry, dirty kids, especially all boys into her lovely home...
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