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The Anderson shelter that was in the garden, one was named after a MP. I remember seeing a play about the suffragettes and the thing that I vowed never to waste a vote again was I heard somebody had done a recording of somebody reaching and it was heart breaking where they had force-fed them and I vowed and I never had until last year when I voted for Kilroy Silk and I wasted the first vote because I thought he was right but he was only after himself.

My brother was Mountbatten鈥檚 telegrapher, he went to the Golden Hind in Australia as well. My brother was on HMS Kelly and that was Mountbatten鈥檚 ship. My aunt cycled all the way through the bombing to deliver babies.

I do remember the destruction, mostly when the doodlebugs came but Southampton was devastated. My father had aspirations to be a counsellor. The trip to Isle of Wight during the war was run by the Conservative Party.

My brother was on a motor torpedo boat all from Southampton all through the war in around 1941 then he was in submarines and he was torpedoed three times and I thought he was on the hood but I am not sure but he was on the HMS Express in the Atlantic.

My husband was in a rifle club in 1944. Perkins school for girls was my school. My father paid 拢4.8 shillings for my music lessons at school. Newman鈥檚 of Kinston on Thames were where I bought the tools.

We had a cellar where my father would come through a tunnel and we would listen for the taps of my father鈥檚 footsteps and Elizabeth would tinkle herself with fright when John called out daddies coming, as a warning to my brother to stop taking the sweets from the suitcase where my father would hid the sweets. John would never share the sweets. We don鈥檛 know why my father would hoard the sweets the way he did, but we were never told off for taking them (he must have known we had some).

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