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This story was submitted to the People鈥檚 War web site by Karen Elmes at the Building Exploratory on behalf of Rose Chancey and has been added to the site with her permission. She fully understands the site's terms and conditions.

Rose was born in 1943. She does not remember much about the war itself but remembers playing on the bomb damage sites near her home on Fortis Road in Tufnell Park.

鈥淚n Fortis Road about fifty yards from where we lived there were bombed houses which were completely down to ground level, absolutely flattened out like a big huge garden with just bricks everywhere.鈥�

All the children in the area would meet on the bomb damage site to play mums and dads and build houses using the old bricks.

鈥淲e didn鈥檛 have expensive computers, we had bloody bricks and we were as happy as larry! Bomb debris we used to call it鈥eet you down the bomb debris.鈥�

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