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This story was submitted to the People's War Site by a volunteer from CSV Actiondesk on behalf of Margot Blakeney and has been added to the site with his permission. Mrs Blakeney fully understands the site's terms and conditions.

The day war broke out I can remember I was in church, the sirens went and the vicar told us to take shelter as shelters had been built on Ealing Common. From 1939 until 1943 I worked in Londonat abrewery as a secretary. I lived in digs and many a night used to sleep under the stairs as London was continually bombed, even during the day. Once my bike was even hit. I was very lucky, my friend's house was bombed and a month later their new house was devastated.

Living in digs I had to hand my ration book to my land lady, she made marvellous meals, I don't know how she did it. I went to evening classes to learn to cook, I learnt with dried egg powder. Rtioning in the country wasn't quite so bad, my parents lived near Stanford. You weren't allowed to make cream. In the village people paid one shilling a day to get a meal in a local hall.

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