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This story was submitted to the People's War site by Bridie Wright of Wakefield Libraries and Information Services on behalf of Jean Froggett and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.
At the age of 10 I was evacuated to the Vicar of Haslingden鈥檚 widow who lived in Accrington near the school. She had a maid and two children still at home, aged 43 and 44, and a son in the army aged 27. Teatime consisted of a small plate of white bread and one of brown, 2 small amounts of jam and a small piece of cake each.
I should have gone to Pendleton High School, but the whole school was evacuated to Accrington Grammar.
Each evacuee was given a carrier bag with a gas mask inside, some plain chocolate, a tin of corned beef and a few other bits.
My mum took me back home by December because I was ill. My father moved to Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire hoping that we would be safer there. I went to Aylesbury Grammar School and watched the Blitz on London from there. A land mine dropped outside the school, demolishing the school across the road. Dad moved to Mansfield to manage Hagenback鈥檚 so I had to change schools again. We celebrated VE and VJ Day in Mansfield before moving to Wakefield where I met the love of my life from Horbury, a navigator in the RAF on the Lancaster Bomber Squadron.

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