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I remember the mine dropped in cemetery Road in Ipswich and it shattered my mother’s glass fronted bookcase at number 20 Finchley Road. I was going to the Co-Op in Norwich Road. I had my baby in the pram, and a German plane appeared so low that I shot into one of the gardens.

A bomb was dropped on Westbourne School. I can also remember all the British planes going over our house.

I got married before the war, and remember I was evacuated to Leicester with my son. As my father was a policeman, we were evacuated to a police house. I was there for about six to seven months.

My husband Harry was in a reserved occupation (milk marketing) so he didn’t get called up.

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