00:03I was very young when the war broke out so it's very hard to remember how it
00:08actually started for me but what I do know is that my mother really wanted to
00:13be with my father and he had to stay in London because he was putting shows on
00:18to entertain the people who were staying behind in London. I was evacuated
00:23constantly. Chichester, Bognor, Brighton. My favorite though was Ilfracombe. You
00:29had to go under a tunnel and then you would get on these beautiful golden
00:34sands and and rocks. My schooling was a disaster because every time we went to a
00:40new place I had to go to a new school and then at the end of the war we were
00:46back
00:47in London for the last year I think and there were a lot of bombs happening and
00:53we got bummed out and I remember going to our home in Maida Vale and seeing that
01:02the whole flat was gone. Oh where's my toys? I said to my mother, well we'll have to buy
01:08some more, said my father. We used to have to go and sleep in the underground. It was
01:15very convivial. A lot of people had accordions and they would sing and there
01:20was a little bit of dancing as long as they didn't fall into the train tracks.
01:24It was a lovely atmosphere of we'll get this done, we won't be beaten and I kept
01:32on hearing about Churchill. We never saw him because of course we didn't have TV
01:36but we did listen to him and then on the actual VE day we drove around London and I
01:44had never seen anything like it. It was full of people dancing and singing, kissing
01:53each other and hugging each other, waving the Union Jack. So I want to thank on this
01:59VE day all the fabulous soldiers and sailors and Marines and WAFs and Wrens and RAF
02:08pilots and everybody who helped us win that war. And much love to you who are
02:19still with us. Thank you.
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