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During the war years I was very dependant on having my bicycle, and whilst at Leighton Buzzard I didn鈥檛 have mine, so I hired one from a garage in the town. One day when I was out on the hired bicycle, a man asked me if Queen Anne knew I had the bicycle. It was a fairly vintage model with a velvet seat, but it got me around. We were billet in a house in the town and the Royal Air Force paid about five shillings a week for our billet where Sylvia Gibb (nee Reid) and I stayed together. It was fairly basic, there was no bathroom, the lavatory was down the garden and the lady of the house used to put a tub out in the back yard as it was summer, for us to have a bath once a week. This was fine until the landlady found out that the old fellow next door could also admire the scenery. Our landlady then paid another neighbour, who had a bathroom, sixpence a week so that we could have our bath in privacy.

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