George Harrop was born in Barrow-in-Furness in 1931 and moved to Dartford when he was one year old. During the war the family were evacuated to Bowness and his mother, father, brother and sister began working at the Short Brothers factory at White Cross Bay. The family moved to 57 Calgarth Road and George travelled to school in Ambleside until December 1942, when the primary school opened at Calgarth.

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