Peter Batten lives in Brighton but remembers his magic childhood in London…

I grew up in the London Borough of Southwark. My home was in a notorious area of the borough called Bermondsey. During World War II it was very dangerous because we were between two important railway lines and less than half a mile from the river Thames. The Germans knew that any bomb landing in our area could cause serious disruption. My family moved out to Essex for the worst of the Blitz, but I still lived for most of the war in a danger zone.
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