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- West Sussex Library Service
- People in story:听
- Miss Edwards
- Location of story:听
- Stratford, London
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A4678950
- Contributed on:听
- 03 August 2005
I lived in Stratford, in the East End of London. When war was declared on the 3rd of September, the neighbours came over. The families decided not to put an air raid shelter in the garden because the war would either be over by Christmas or we would be gassed anyway if the Germans arrived.
It was decided to send my sister and I to the safety of Lincolnshire to stay with some other family members. When we arrived we didn鈥檛 understand anything that they were saying, the toilet was down the end of the garden, there was a pump for the water, oil lamps and candles and rats in the roof. We were not prepared to stay with people that we did not know or understand and in the conditions that they lived in. The next day we returned to London!
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