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Her Life

War years

December 23, 2020
  1. Alice was born in Farnworth to Fred and Annie kelly. She was the eldest of 4 siblings. When she was 7 years old the war broke out between England and Germany and she told a story of how she walked around carrying a gas mask to school and any activities she attended. She remembers going to air raid shelters with her family and listening to the whizzing sounds of the bombs dropping from the sky. She remembered rations and how her mother baked from scratch and that her father had the yolk of an egg and the children had the white. She remembered having a friend who lived in a big house at the bottom of her street, and the grandmother who lived there was dressed in black and stared at you when you came knocking. How frightening she was to a little girl. She use to play out all day and hated it when she had to go home.
  2. Alice had two younger sisters and everywhere Alice went she had to take them with her, the friends use to say why have you brought them again Alice was furious so she once asked her mother and she said your taking them and thats that. You always did what your parents said and that was that.