Life during WW2
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Interviewee name: Doris Boost
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Doris Boost was born in 1908. Here she talks about what life was like in London during the Second World War, the bombs falling and the shelters.
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- 1950s
- 1960s
- BERLIN
- BLITZ
- BRITISH ARMY
- CHILDHOOD
- EDUCATION
- Falklands
- INDIA
- IRA
- IRAQ WAR
- IRELAND
- King Alfred
- King Alfred School
- RAF
- SCHOOL
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- Spain
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- UK
- War
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- australia
- bombing
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- children
- community
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- doodlebugs
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- london
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- ralph volcere
- riots
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from Stuart Prebble 26th Jun 2009, 06:30
Bombs were dropping all around you, but you keep leave your door open in Dalston and no-one had broken in...... and all in one lifetime. Great stuff.... I could listen to Doris for hours.
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