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When war started, we went on school two or three days a week in the mornings in different people鈥檚 houses. So we missed a lot of education in that sense. And then during the war, when the Blitz started, we used to go down to the鈥� shelter and spent the night down there and I used to get up in the morning at 7.30am to start work, and we finished about 5 p.m. And that was it. We used to go on to night鈥檚 school three nights a week in those days as an apprentice
But I can鈥檛 really remember much of that except the fact that once or twice I stayed in bed and my mother said to me 鈥測ou鈥檙e getting up?鈥� and I said 鈥淣o, I鈥檓 too tired to get up I鈥檓 staying in bed.鈥� And I鈥檇 get up in the morning.

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