大象传媒

Hi Everyone!
I'm now in my late seventies and was born in Bermondsey,one of a large family with five sisters and three brothers who are, by the grace of God, all living as I write.
I attended Galleywall Road School from the age of five until I passed the LCC Scholarship, then went on to St Olave's and St Saviours Grammar School, originally in Tooley Street by Tower Bridge, but then evacuated to Torquay in Devon.
Back home in Bermondsey again, I joined the ARP, still at school and under age of course, then after leaving this, went into the National Fire Service as a Messenger in 1943. I was stationed at the old LFB Fire-Station in Old Kent Road until the end of the war in 1945.
After a brief sojourn down the pits as a volunteer Bevin boy, I did National Service in the Army with REME, was demobbed in 1950, then re-called as a Z Reservist for a short while in 1951, but that's another story!
We lived at the shop in Galleywall Road from early 1940 onwards, and I was there, except for the times away evacuated and on National Service, until married in 1954, when we moved first to Brockley SE4, then down to Kent where we lived till 1998.
As the war went on for nearly six years, in common with the others of my generation, I didn't have much of a teenage-hood as such, we were old before we were young I suppose. The war and the blitz became part of everyday life, and being aware of the death and destruction going on all around when "moaning minnie" sounded, (and sometimes when she didn't) made one fatalistic. However everyone was friendly and made the best of things, a good atmosphere prevailed in London. I feel priveleged to have been there in those times and lived to tell the tale.
I now live in one of the north London suburbs, and have four married Daughters plus ten Grandchildren.
Still enjoying good health, thank God, I'm able to visit my old haunts when I feel like it, and make the most of London with my Freedom Pass.
I'd be pleased to hear from anyone who remembers me and my family, or recalls any of the incidents in my story.
All the Best.
kenyaines.