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London on Fire

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Mrs B Brock and has been added to the site with her permission.
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This memory dates from about 1943, before I was born, but my mother who has now passed away, told me about it — she had never forgotten the night that London was on fire.

My mother remembers looking for a place to stay for herself and her 2 young children (my siblings - I was born after the war.) She went from shelter to shelter to find somewhere. They did have a home in the Old Kent Road but it was not safe to go there. My mother always told me that she was not going to evacuate the children. If I die, she said, who would want them.

My dad worked for Bullivents — the paper place. He told me about going down to the factory because it was on fire. He had to rescue all the lorries which were full of paper as they would have all exploded.

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