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Interview with My Grandma, Margaret, by Sarah

At the beginning of the war my grandma, Margaret, worked in a biscuit factory in Neasden, called Kemps. They made biscuits for the soldiers. Then she moved to work in another factory called BTH Engineering. They made parts for the war, pieces for aeroplanes and tanks. Her dad worked for the Air Ministry. They lived on the North Circular Road in Neasden. There was a lot of bombing and she was in and out of air raid shelters all the time.

One day a bomb landed and blew the front door off and it hit her sister, Dorothy. A good friend of her brother’s, Jackie, lived round the corner and their house got bombed out and they had to move. Then their next house got bombed. He got a problem with his finger and it went septic. He went out to a First Aid lorry and a bomb hit them and killed them.

She met my Grandad when there were air raids. They sat in the corner of the shelter and played games and quizzes. The people in the shelter called them ‘babes in the wood’! After a while, my Grandma’s family moved to North Wood Hills to get away from the bombing. She still worked in London and went into London every day.

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