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London. I was 5 years old when the war broke out.
I remember living in a block of flats and we had pink curtains. We had to go down to a shelter when the air raids were on and granddad didn鈥檛 go. One night they dropped incendiaries between the flats and the waste ground - they caught light to the curtains and he thought that the whole flat was on fire!
We were on the second floor in our flat and when the air raid sirens went off, we were made to sit under the kitchen table.
I was evacuated to Biggen Hill out to relations, then they started to bomb the airfield so I was sent back to London. Then I was evacuated near to Cambridge for 18 months in a village called Swaverly, I think. I didn鈥檛 really enjoy it. Then my uncle was killed, so I went home to be with my grandmother (My mother died when I was 6.)
I think I had a sad war - everything was interrupted, Family life school. Everything.

The only good thing I remember was my uncle (before he was killed), arriving home. He was a desert rat and had been with Montgomery and he had a bag of walnuts. I had never seen walnuts before.

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