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The house of Jenkins the son, the bakery van driver, the man who also needed help, help to deliver bread...
Father's sister and her husband owned a hotel on the Dorset coast and held the lease of an unoccupied...
I passed the 11+ examination in 1943 and was awarded an LCC scholarship and a place at a London grammar...
I do remember my father carrying me to the back door of the house on a moonlight night and seeing what I...
Chirk is now much changed from that time, but the surrounding countryside is very pretty, and Sunday...
The conflict was brought to Thanet's doorstep because of our closeness to the Goodwin Sands where mined...
About a quarter of an hour later after leaving home, 15a Morton Street Lawrence Hill, we walked across a...
It was a lovely place to be, and in the fateful August of 1942 that all Swanage people remember we shared...
We eventually arrived in a small village, Llanwrda in South Wales, and from the village square the evacuees...
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