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I was born in April ’37 Darby but as my dad was a textile fitter for Howard and Bulloughs I was born in Estonia where he was fitting the new textile machines in a local factory. Come the war I bravely fought off the Germans but there were just too many for me (I mean what can a two and a half year old do?) and we were all captured and sent to a Concentration Camp for my dad, a prison for my mum and a Kindergarten for my brother and me. My mum, brother and me were repatriated to England in ’40 and after being bombed out of London and Manchester we ended up in Blackpool for the duration and shortly after got to Accrington where my dad took up his old job at H & B.
I’ve often wondered that too janet. Why did/do they call it Gobbinland?
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