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This story was submitted to the People's War Site by Joan Smith for Three Counties Action on behalf of Brenda Porter, a visitor to the Bedfordshire County Show on 9th July 2005. The story has been added to the site with the author's permission, and she fully understands the site's terms and condition.

I was born in 1941 and we lived in Hornsey, North London. My very first recollections are of being in a big inside shelter which was in our front room, and of being prevented from crawling out to get a picture book which I wanted. All of the windows were criss-crossed over with tape. Our front railings were taken away because the metal was needed for armaments. My dad was in the army in the Middlesex Regiment and I don't remember seeing him until I was about four years old. I had a red sirensuit. I remember the banging on doors to tell people to put lights out, and the screaming when a bomb had dropped. I remember the flying bombs and the fear when the noise stopped. My brother was very distressed when a friend of his was killed.

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