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Our family never dreamt of leaving London even though they were,like everyone else,subject to the bombs and the destruction. I attended St.John's school in East Dulwich from the age of 5 and walked to school down Ulverscroft Road every day to a home lunch and then returned. One day a bomb or doodlebug dropped onto a nearby street and this destroyed the only sweet shop. Not that there was any to be bought. However, as young boys we explored the destroyed shop looking for shrapnel and found,not sweets, but the wafers that enabled you to handle an ice cream block. These came in packets of I suppose 10 or 12 and they were delicious and consumed before I got home some 200 yards or so. Needless to say I did not want my lunch and this annoyed mother so was sent back to school with a good telling off.
There are other stories to tell but they could be for another time

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