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This contribution to People鈥檚 War was received by the Action Desk at 大象传媒 Radio Norfolk and submitted to the website with the permission and on behalf of Mr stanley Deeks
鈥淢y family lived at Aldryche Road, off Hilary Avenue (Nr Plumstead Road). In 1942 at the end of June the house was bombed and we were in the shelter at the bottom of the garden. The house had caught fire. My mother was eight and a half months pregnant. All the new baby things were destroyed. We went to the end of the street in our night clothes to spend the night before being evacuated the next day to Suffolk. The new baby arrived a week later and slept in the drawer of the chest.鈥�

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