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This story was submitted to the People’s War web site by Karen Elmes at the Building Exploratory on behalf of Jack and has been added to the site with his permission. He fully understands the site's terms and conditions.

During the war Jack served in the Forces but when he was on leave he would stay with his family in Oswald Road in Hackney. Whilst there Jack and his wife had to take shelter from the Blitz, he remembers how they would go down to Victoria Park during the air raids:

“We had the Anderson shelter at the back, but we didn’t care too much for those.
The wife and I used to walk the streets. When I was on leave or anything like that I’d come home and just to be with each other we used to walk all the way down to Victoria Park. Perhaps we’d take a bottle of milk with us, a few sandwiches and we’d go into the park there, and there were no houses for them to bomb there and that was the idea. You’d hear everything going on around, but we’d go under a tree and sit there, talk to each other. We’d have a drop of milk, a sandwich and we both felt very near to each other and safe. We used to go right the way through from 6 in the evening to 6 in the morning�

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