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I was 13 when war broke out. We found out over the radio. My father was in the fire station and heard the air raid siren - a false alarm as it turned out. We stayed in Barhurst throughout the war. During the Blitz, the planes always passed over Barnhurst as the planes followed the Thames to the centre. Some bombs hit us but they usually turned round.

We accepted wartime as normal. We youngsters still went out, but there was always a long walk home as there was no transport during the night. During the air raids, we went to the billiard halls, as we were young and rebellious. I left school in Christmas 1939, at 14 years old, so I wasn't at school during the war. I went to work in Tower Hill and served in the Royal Engineers at the end of the war. I served in the barrack towns - Maidstone, Aldershot, etc. There was no risk down there - there was a much greater risk living in London.

When the war ended, I came to London for the day. My main memory was of a soldier and his wife getting hit by a car. The man was crying, it was very distressing. Trafalgar Square was very hectic.

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