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I was thirteen and a half when the war started. I was evacuated with my brother (who was 7) to Kings Lynn. I was living prior to that in Bethnal Green. I remember our school teachers father came with us along with the school teacher.
We were sent to a house and a couple of days later we had to move to another house.This happened a couple of times because the people who owned the properties moved out themselves. I was treated well by Mrs Deakin who I eventually ended up with. The house became a cafe as well! That was perhaps why she got extra food. I left Kings Lynn about a year later and came home to the bombs.

Columbia Market in the east end of London was an airade shelter and my parents regularly went down there. I used to see the buzz bombs coming over and I used to go to the top of the building to watch the buzz bombs coming over before realising what they were.

I remember one lunch time watching the buzz bombs. It was a selfish feeling but you hoped it would pass over you (until the petrol ran out). This particular day the bomb stopped and started to come down near me and I thought it was curtains. Everyone else around me disappeared and I was left watching the bomb. The wind took it and it turned around towards us - thats why everyone ran! Luckily it turned again and I heard it landed in London Fields. I must have been mad, standing there watching it.

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