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I was living in Kensal Green when the Second World War broke out. I was three years old.

In 1941 the war was getting so bad that we had to be evacuated. Living in Kensal Green we were not far from the railway station and next to the station was the ammunitions factory which the Germans were trying to bomb.

One day one bomb blew up half of Hazel Road. Our wall came down and all the windows were blown out. We had a Morrison shelter in the dining room and all the glass went into the shelter. If Mum hadn't been round my gran's house she would have been cut to ribbons because she would have been in the shelter. Dad came home early from work that day. He wasn't feeling well and he thought Mum was amongst all the rubble. Then he saw her coming along the road and he was relieved to see her. They had to go into the Watney shelters for a few days until they were allocated another house. That was in Craven Park in Harlesden.

We children were evacuated to Whitland in South Wales. When we were allocated to our families in Wales my sister went to live with two of the teachers from the local High School and I was placed with a very nice lady. Unfortunately her daughter got Diptheria and I had to move across the road to another lady who was not very nice. I had to sleep on a camp bed with coats over me.

When Mum came down to see us we asked her to take us home. We had been in Wales for only four months. Mum took us home and we lived safely in Craven Park uintil the end of the war

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