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Our route took a diversion from the highway just before the entrance to the railway station, and a left...
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I can remember going to Cheddar Grove school, at Bedminster Down, with my brother and sister... I went to...
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Many months later — or maybe a year or so — I learnt, from my elder brother Roy, that...
We then moved to Walton by Kimcote as we already had some relatives that had moved to the village, but they...
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My family Grand Parents, Mum, Dad & older Brother was then in great danger because we lived very close...
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