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I was born in 1943. I had a twin sister, Elizabeth. We were born in Hammersmith Hospital and lived in Shepherds Bush. I had an ID card and I still have it. It has lots of addresses on it from moving around. My mother stayed in London with my father , who was an Air Raid Warden, because she saw it as her duty to do so. Six of us lived in a one bedroom flat. My two brothers, John and William, were evacuated, aged four and seven, to Scotland. My sister and I stayed in London. My mother told me that originally she strongly refused to allow us to be evacuated when asked to do so by officials. Then Aunt Daisy, my mother's sister, came down from Scotland and pressurised my mum to let her take us back to Scotland with her. She did this because of the 'Flying Bombs'. She had one of us on each arm on the train.We stayed in Scotland until the end of the War, at various addresses in Glasgow. We were probably moved around between my mum's brothers and sisters.
I have a vague memory of shelters in Shepherds Bush.

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