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During the war I lived with my parents, 2 sisters and brother in a Southern railway tied property in Battersea South, London. I have many memories of the war, some happy and some simply terrible. Our shelter was a railway arch at the bottom of the back garden. I remember a particularly terrible evening of heavy bombing when our friends who owned a caf茅 came by our shelter. We offered them space for the night in our already crowded shelter. They thanked us but declined the offer as they were only one street away from their own shelter. That was the last we saw them alive, all six of them died from a direct hit among many others that night. We were lucky!! The next morning we helped as much as we could; moving the rubble to find people alive. We were all shocked but life had to continue, so as to be as normal as possible and the queuing for food continued as usual.

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