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My Grandmother was 4' 8" she was crippled and weighed about 6 stone, but she was one of the toughest women I ever knew!
During the war she was bombed out 7 times. Wapping is an island built into the middle of London and surrounded by water and all the ships with all the supplies such as food, clothing and weapons used to be unloaded. So it was bombed almost every night and people lost their homes, possessions, everything really. Wapping has an underground railway station and after being bombed out for the 7th time my Grandmother decided to live there. So she packed everything she could save into an old pram and took my Uncle and moved in!
She had Sisters living locally and she used to do her washing and cooking at their homes, taking turns. And that's how she lived for three and a half years, until the war ended. She never complained, just got on with things. As she said "that's the way things are, take it as it comes". I think that took real guts. She had the opportunity to leave London, but wouldn't leave my Grandfather.
Disclaimer: this story was added by Angela Stobbart on behalf of June Hunt at Murton Library.

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