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At the next lull, we decided that we would try to get to Goodge Street tube station where we may catch a...
The closest the war ever actually came was when a tracer bullet crashed through the bedroom window during...
It was June 1940, I had just reached my 15th birthday, when my mother deposited me at Bagshot Park, the...
The two girls went to Baker's farm and us three boys went to the head gardener's house on Lord and...
Tomorrow Rosie, get your glad rags on” “because we're going to Buckingham Palace to see the...
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Rosie and I travelled back to Paddington on our own, I don't remember much about Christmas at home, but...
Born Margaret Malvaney into a musical family she joined the choir at St. Ann's Catholic Church at the...
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