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1944.I was 5 years old living in Bedford Park, my Father was a policeman. Until then we sheltered in our own home or local shelter. That particular day my father was getting coal from the basement of our Edwardian house. The neighbour asked "where do your wife and child go during air raids? My father replied either home or local shelter. The neighbour invited us in, and that night our home received a direct hit, my bedroom was destroyed. On being informed that the house had been hit, my father returned home to find furniture in the street and no family. A neighbour had taken us in after the air raid,he was however a communist who disliked, amonst other, police. However, until my father arrived, to pick us up, this neighbour had not realised my father was a policeman. Never the less this man continued to look after us, until we had a requisitioned house nearby. I was evacuated to a Harrogate suburb. I returned to London in 1945. I did have contact with my parents, through parcels and letters.

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