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It was Folkestone during the war. When I was living in Dyke Road, there was these enormous tall tanks full of oil and when I was a child I used to think…

When the trains come up from Folkestone Harbour, red hot cinders used to come out because it's such a steep incline and I used to think suppose those ashes caught all that oil alight. We think that oil was there to set the sea alight in case of invasion.

On a calm day in Folkestone, you could hear the doodlebugs leaving France. They make such a roar, like motorbikes without silencers on them. I was frightened out of my wits, you knew when they went quiet, they just fell and exploded so you had to run for cover.

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