Childhood
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rowing up I was really privileged because I lived about 10 minutes walk to the sea and the sea shore and the sand, 5 minutes to a river and 10 minutes walk up past the field
there was a lake, so even the children at school were all taught to swim because we were all surrounded by water, it was an amazing place to live now that I can look at it from afar, with rivers and the sea and sand it was a lovely place to live. In the field near to where we lived we dug out a play house, it was quite big, we had a fireplace in there and used to stick old wall paper up the walls, it was only a walk away from the river so we always had some water to play in. Everything was walking distance away, we didn’t have any transport, but we never even thought about transport, we just walked everywhere. Once my little brother was climbing up the local light, a big light at the end of the road when something near by made a big noise and he fell to the ground, I can always remember that, Tony falling out of the sky. He must of hurt himself but you didn’t complain then if you hurt yourself doing something because it’s your own fault, you should know before you start
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whether you take the risk or not. [She laughs] We thought he was dead, at least we hoped so as we’d never seen a dead person! top: Grandma 10 months old 1934. bottom left: Grandma during her 3 years with the WRAF. bottom right: Tony, Grandma’s brother.
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