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I remember the big street party on VE day with the bonfire. I was ten. The bonfire was so hot that it burned a big hole in the middle of the street which was a concrete road. The bonfire probably lasted all day. The last time I went down that road, Edmund Road, Orpington the Council had filled it in, with whatever they used at the time, but I could still see where iot was - that was, I suppose in the last two or three years.

The war to me was fun, we used to collect shrapnel. They used to come around and collect it so it could be recycled. They encouraged us to collect it.

Another thing I remember, is being at school during air raid and we went into shelters. I was a dabhand at modelling with plasticine. Once the air raid finished, we left the plasticine in the shelters - surface shelters for my school - and went back to our classes. I suppose they must have had books, or blackboards with chalk. I was only four when the war began. In actual fact the very day the war broke out, my baby brother, born 1939 was just christened.

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