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I was evacuated to Cambridge in 1940 to stay with my two aunts. While I was there I started school for the first time, learned to ride a bicyclee and knew very little about the war.

In 1941 my father fetched me so that I could spend a short time with them in a semi detached house backing onto the railway at Goodmayes: this meant that we had to change trains at Liverpool Street Station which was at that time in flames. I remember it vividly because I lagged behind, wanting to see this wonderful spectacle, my father was not so impressed and kept pulling me along. Finally we reached the house which we rented and I stayed for about a week before returning to Cambridge. A month later the house in Goodmayes was no longer there, luckily my parents had moved elsewhere.

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