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There were four sisters in Bermondsey — my mum and three aunties. The eldest, lived in Eaton Bray. My mother, because when the sirens went my six year old brother would run into the Church crypt, and my mother had to grab me, the baby and go and look for him. So they suggested that they all went to Eaton Bray for safety, as the eldest sister lived there.

While the others went to work my mother was left with all the children in this cottage without electricity so she paid to have it put herself. One sister went on the buses as a Clippie, I went to A.C. Delco on war work. But the eldest sister went into the School House as a Caretaker, and had a small garden with a pig, chickens and vegetables. She also took in lodgers who were doing war work. People came from London for short visits for respite.

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