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During the war we had an Anderson shelter in the garden. After the air raid we all went back into the house, had a cup of tea, I went to bed and my sister and her husband went upstairs to bed. Unbeknown to us the Germans had planes that could glide. One of them glided up the Thames and dropped its bombs. one went in our garden at the back of the house and the back of the house fell down. My brother rushed into the front room downstairs. Just as he got there another bomb fell across the road and the front of the house fell down. Moments before it fell down my brother grabbed me out of bed and he didn't know he'd grabbed my feet and he stood me on my head! Luckily enough the middle wall and the stairs were still standing. Minnie my sister and Ada her husband's sister were killed. Kenny who was 18 months old went into hospital with concussion. This was 21st August 1940. Minnie and Ada were buried on the day Ada was going to be married.

The house we moved to was bombed. My two brothers went into the forces; one into the Air Force, the other into the Army. We moved to my cousins in Stanford near Biggleswade and then to Bedford where we had two rooms. I went to school at the Bunyan LCC school. I left school at 14 and went to work for the 大象传媒 as a Telegram Boy. That was how I met Glenn Miller. We took it in turns to take telegrams to him at the Co Partners Hall in Queens Park and listen to the music. I stopped at the 大象传媒 until they went back to London at the end of the war.

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