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I met, with other girls at Queens Road in Brighton where we took the 'King's Shilling' and...
We'd pick up cattle feed from the London docks and bring it back, so I was up there all day while the...
The department , called the Welfare Dept had two functions: 1 to provide a vocational/careers advice for...
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An air battle was in full cry overhead and suddenly a Junkers 88 was shot down, two parachutes left the...
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