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I lived with my parents on a new housing estate, in Kingstanding, a suburb of Birmingham; I was not...
She made this birthday cake and it was officially going to have 'Happy Birthday' in cochineal pink,...
In the summer of 1940 Germany decided to bomb London and other important cities and thus invade Britain and...
At 7 o'clock at night we finally arrived after a long journey in Beckford, where we stayed in a hotel...
I can remember one bright moonlight night walking home from a neighbouring village watching a plane...
However Until 1943 I was living in Shetland which, lying as it does as near Bergen as Aberdeen meant that...
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The farmer had a motor van for one milk round... I was also responsible for the car of the ducks and...
They sorted out some better accommodation and when mother returned to Seascale we said a sad farewell to...
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