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Just after this I realised that the red sky that I could see a long way in the distance from London was...
Having been turned down for the forces on medical grounds I returned to work and became a voluntary...
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He continued to work both as a furrier and police officer in the Mayfair and Soho areas of London until...
As a four year old, I often spent many hours with the ARP at Capland Street school in St. Marylebone. Early...
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Living near the Archway, North London, my dad always made a point of taking my brother Patrick and myself...
My father was in the army and I lived with my mother in Burdett Building , Westminster Bridge Road; next...
John Lewis was alight and we sat in C and As eating chips and watching John Lewis burn. We went to sleep,...
'My first recollection was the voice on the radio, saying that war had broken out and I rushed...
I worked as a coal man, selling coal from a horse drawn cart... I had sold out of coal, and had returned...
I worked as a coal man, selling coal from a horse drawn cart... I had sold out of coal, and had returned...
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