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In early 1945 we had moved from Devon to my Grandfather's house in Camrose Avenue , Edgeware.
One morning , around nine o-clock ,we walked to the bottom of the Avenue to catch a bus on the Edgeware Road to Oxford Street.
Returning around twelve - thirty we found the entrance to Camrose Avenue barricaded off - a V2 had fallen there.
We were allowed to walk up the hill,passing the first houses with windows broken and tiles missing - then ones with outside walls missing where you could still see the furniture in place. Then there were just piles of bricks - the remains of peoples houses and a huge hole in the road where you could see broken pipes and cables.
We stopped short of number 134 while my Grandfather searched for his front door key and having found it we were allowed to proceed to the front gate.
What we then saw was the front door was missing (it was found in the Kitchen at the back of the house !)- so we didn't need the key after all!
( The kitchen door was at the bottom of the Garden and the water tank had fallen through the ceiling onto my mother's bed .)
A repair gang turned - up shortly after and put back the doors , water - tank , and made repairs to the ceilings and windows.
Neither door was quite the same afterwards.!!

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