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- CSV Action Desk Leicester
- People in story:Ìý
- Doris Cassidy
- Location of story:Ìý
- London, Essex
- Article ID:Ìý
- A8761827
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 23 January 2006
I had my first baby on New Years Eve 1937.
I moved to Ealey in lodgings with my husbands work.
My little boy was born a year after there. I wanted to go into the Wrens but couldn’t. We were there for 2 years and then moved to Leicester — from then on we had another 4 children. I struggled since my husband was away for work.
I had walk everywhere. I hated it in Leicester but I couldn’t go back. I moved from a 2 to 6 bedroom house. Money would come through on a Saturday morning. One week it didn’t come and I had to last on a whole weeks ration.
I never heard a bomb.
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