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On the day war broke out, we both lived in Grays-End in Kent- we still do. We were taken down the Thames, by the Red sea to Norfolk and stayed there for six months. We then had to move on because I should have joined the Grammer school that September. My landlady is still alive and in her nineties. I was away from home for 12 months. I came home to kent and had a fantastic war. It was fantastic because there were fights going on over-head and we used to cheer. It was exciting to say the least. We used to get on our bikes and try to get there before the ARP did.
I was 11 when war broke out. As a child it was so exciting. It was incredible, absolutely incredible. I slept in the shelter for months and months.
We knew by the sound of the engine whether it was the Germans or British and we would cheer if they were German and Boo if it were British.

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