- Contributed by听
- gmractiondesk-ashton
- People in story:听
- May Stafford
- Location of story:听
- Peebles, Scotland; Denton, Manchester
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A4818288
- Contributed on:听
- 05 August 2005
This story was submitted to the People's War website by Julia Shuvalova for GMR Actiondesk on behalf of May Stafford and has been added with her permission. The author is fully aware of the terms and conditions of the site.
In wartime I lived in a small Scottish country town that was considered safe. We had evacuees from Edinburgh. I was 13.
In six years I went from a school girl to being engaged to a soldier returning from the Burma campaign. I had met people of different nationalities, i.e. girls from Poland. I moved from the countryside in Peebles where I was making Scottish tweed to Denton, a town where hat-making was the industry. Everything was different - both houses and the ways in people.
My war was quite safe, only a few bombs. But I had always given a lot of support in many things that had had to be done.
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