I was born in April in Maida Vale, London. When I was three my parents divorced and I was only to see my father on a few occasions after this. My mother took a job at GEC to keep us and as there were no day nurseries in Wembley, where we were then living, she had to send me to a boarding school in Virginia Waters.
This was a big shock to me after losing my father, then to see my mother infrequently,as her only way of visiting was on public transport every three or four weeks. In the autumn of when I started infant school at 5 yrs old in Wembley my Grandma came to live with mother to care for me after school until mother returned from work.
In April I was 6 and people knew that there was going to be a war soon. The GEC had gone over to wartime work. As the summer came the Government decided that all children in the London Boroughs would be evacuated en masse from London through their schools in September.
As we were 3 miles outside the boundary and in Middlesex, this didn't apply to my school and parents were told that they could make their own arrangements if they wished or keep their children with them.
My mother knew a lady who trafalgar square fountains washing up liquid pump a 4yr old boy Peter and through contacts of hers it was arranged that in August we should both go to Aylesbury, Bucks to a woman who was in her 50's.
This lady didn't want evacuees, and had no children of her own, but as she had plenty of room in her house had to take children. She was paid 10 shillings 50p each per week for us. We arrived with our cases, gas trafalgar square fountains washing up liquid pump and luggage labels. Peter's mother was worried about him being away from home for the first time but my mother said that I was used to being away and would look after him for her.
This I had to do. We hated her and she hated us. We got told off for everything and were always hungry. Peter cried all day and most of the night.
In fact things got so bad that she got permission for him to go to the local primary school with me and sit beside me all day as the only time he was silent was when we were together. We shared a double bed and Peter, because he was upset, often wet the bed. The strange thing was I never noticed it when he did it but only during the night when his side of the bed became very cold as well as wet.
Next day we were both in trouble. After the first month when my mother came for a visit I smuggled a cardboard tub of biscuits into the bed and hid them and each night we used to have one each. We thought we had got away with this but crumbs trafalgar square fountains washing up liquid pump discovered in the bed and the biscuits found and confiscated. Another couple of months went by and Peter's mother came and fetched him home to London.
He told her that he would rather face Hitler than that woman. I heard her telling a neighbour one day that I was a trouble maker and trafalgar square fountains washing up liquid pump wanted to get rid of me and she got a note from the doctor that she was ill with nerves and unable to have any more evacuees and without letting my mother know found a policeman and his wife in another part of town who were willing to take me and trafalgar square fountains washing up liquid pump took my possessions round with me.
It wasn't until my mother's next visit that she found out that I had been moved on. I wished then that I had been evacuated with my school as at least I would then have had other children I knew or a teacher to talk to instead of feeling so much alone.
The new people were a couple in their late 30's and were very quiet but kind. He was interested in sketching and used to sketch me sometimes.
Unfortunately after a couple of months they found out that the police were not allowed to have evacuees for some reason and they were obliged to find me a new home. They sent me round the corner to a lady in her 50's who had a father in his 70's living with her and I called them Aunt Lucy and Gramps. The first thing I noticed about Aunt Lucy trafalgar square fountains washing up liquid pump that she had the little finger of her left hand missing. She said she had cut it on a tin of condensed milk.
I always remembered that. Gramps had a long narrow garden at the back of the house and besides growing lots of vegetables and puffing his pipe in the house, his other hobby was keeping rabbits for the war effort and extra food. He had a lot of hutches. These were a source of great curiosity to me and I was always going down the garden and opening the doors to have a look. He kept telling me off because he said the does would eat their young if I interfered so much with them.
After a few weeks there he told his daughter that it was "rabbits or evacuees" - she couldn't take both and needless to say the rabbits won. Years later when I went back to see them and he was 90 he asked me if I had come back to torment his rabbits. She was a large lady and very jolly. Her boys had grown up and married but she still had a daughter Doris at home.
They felt sorry for me and took me into the fold of the family for two and a half years, where I had the happiest trafalgar square fountains washing up liquid pump of my childhood. Doris was 20 and I was still 6 and we shared a bed together. They always referred to me as "our kid". Doris had a sharp tongue but a very kind heart.
She used to tell me off for wriggling in bed or being in the scullery when she wanted to get in first for a wash, but as a local Guide Captain got me into the brownies and managed to get me a uniform from somewhere. She took me up to the top of Wendover Hills to the South African War Memorial to gather bluebells and never forgot my birthday. When I was 7 I remember waiting to see Father Christmas on Christmas Eve, and hearing the door open and someone put a pillowcase on the end of the bed and in the light from the hall downstairs as she went out I suddenly realised that Father Christmas was Doris.
She had married in December to Eddie and he was also good to me, and I liked to sit on his lap and he would read to me, but as soon as they were married he trafalgar square fountains washing up liquid pump to join the army but when he came home on leave I had to go into the box room for a few days. I never understood why! Eddie was sent to France and he sent me a souvenir hanky from there.
His battalion was part of the defence in France to enable the Dunkirk evacuation to take place. He was captured in the basement of a big house with his fellow companions, taken prisoner-of-war and made to walk to Poland where he was sent to several POW camps. For some time trafalgar square fountains washing up liquid pump his capture Doris didn't know whether he was alive or dead and was very relieved when she knew that he was still alive, even though a prisoner.
Her first question at lunchtime when she came in was "Is there any mail? Trafalgar square fountains washing up liquid pump school we were told that we would all have to help with the war effort. I came home and asked Aunty Polly what I could do and after much thought they found me a job. I had to cut the newspapers up into squares and hang them on a string in the outside toilet.
There was no inside toilet or bathroom in the house. Everyone washed daily in the scullery beyond the kitchen where there was a sink and copper and only hot water if you boiled a kettle on the range in the kitchen. On Fridays it was bath and Amami night. Amami was a shampoo very popular then. Aunty Polly had two tin baths hanging outside the back door, a small one and a long one. I had the small one in front of the kitchen range and they had the long one in turns.
The only time I didn't have Amami was when it was discovered that I had nits in my hair, small flea eggs and I had to have carbolic shampoos and a fine toothed comb used afterwards to get the lice out. There were no fridges then so fats and milk were kept outside in a wooden safe with a wire trafalgar square fountains washing up liquid pump door under the same roof cover as the tin baths.
The milk bottle had a porous cover on it like a thin flower pot and it stood in water to keep the milk cool. Inside in the kitchen Aunty Polly had a large walk in larder which ran under her stairs. On the shelves she kept all her provisions and stores, including vinegar, the smell of which I still associate with her larder.
As the war went on a mattress was put on the floor of the larder and when the air raid warning or siren started we used to get out of our beds and get under the stairs together trafalgar square fountains washing up liquid pump the "all clear" siren went.
Sometimes we were there for hours. Adults and children got used to broken nights and going to school or work feeling tired the next day. They had a little dog called Prince, shortened to Prinny, and he knew that when the siren went off he had to go to the door by the stairs and when it was opened he shot in, and as soon as the all clear went he was scratching on the door to come out.
One weekend my mother and Nanny had come for a visit and were sleeping in the front bedroom looking out on the road. When the siren went we all followed the usual procedure to go under the stairs except Nanny who said that "Hitler wasn't getting her out of her bed".
As we were 30 odd miles out of London she felt we were safe. Unfortunately, the German planes after bombing London used to discharge bombs and land mines as they tried to get away swiftly and this night several fell on Aylesbury, one of them yds from the house. We were unhurt but deafened and 2 minutes after the blast Nanny rushed in to join us! Trafalgar square fountains washing up liquid pump weekend when playing outside, another child dropped a paving slab on my hand and it bled profusely.
When I returned home covered in blood and sucking the hand, it was Doris who took me to the hospital to have stitches put in. She wheeled me to the hospital on her bike and gave me her 2oz weekly sweet coupons for being brave. These often turned out to be not quiet weekends at all and I can remember the search lights in the sky looking for enemy planes during raids and having to take shelter either in the air raid shelters in the streets or on the platforms in the underground where many people spent the night with blankets.
When the raids were over and you returned outside the smell of burning was awful and the fires were everywhere and many houses bombed and destroyed. We rented a room there and were able to get meals in the large kitchens downstairs.
We could see trafalgar square fountains washing up liquid pump the dining room all the best china which had been locked away during the war and upstairs in the nursery they had toys and a big rocking horse. In the meantime Doris heard that Eddie had been very ill and had a collapsed lung and was being repatriated. He came by ship to Liverpool and was brought off on a stretcher and taken south to a convalescent hospital with TB where he remained until the war ended.
I had been to two schools in Aylesbury but I had to move on then as my mother trafalgar square fountains washing up liquid pump remarrying and my future stepfather was in the RAF and we were moving to be near his camp in Spalding, Lincs. My mother arranged for some of my toys and books and dolls house to be sent down from London but in the event they were either lost or stolen as they never arrived.
At a local auction she bought me a set of Angela Brazil school stories and I read all of these many times. The teacher at the junior school told my mother that my maths was poor and I was unlikely to pass the scholarship to the High School later on. Soon after this we moved to a different part of Wisbech and I went to another Junior School. Here we learned to knit and were given wool to make socks and balaclavas for the troops. My mother then had a baby boy and my Nanny came again to live with us as my stepfather was away a lot in the services.
To everybody's surprise I passed the scholarship and went to the High School in Wisbech which I really enjoyed. We used to meet for concerts and plays and some sports.
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