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I was born in Fulham in 1941. My earliest recollection which may be myth or reality is of being scooped up out of the cot and my mother rushing out of the house with me. I had a recollection of going along a very narrow corridor.

Years later when I told my mum about this she said it must have been the night when the three houses next door to us were bombed. Two, four and six Ewald Road were bombed so that my later years I grew up with a bomb site next door on which we played.

Another incident which occurred when I was probably about three or four, 1944 I should think.

The air raid shelter for the road was actually outside our door, almost, and at night we would have to go out and sleep in it. Those from our end of the road shared it.

I can remember one night I must have been keeping people awake and the gentleman from number one across the road telling me to keep quiet and go to sleep my father was perfectly alright and to stop calling for him, he would be back in the morning. My father at that time was on the London Transport Underground by day and at night he was out on an air raid warning.

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