Eleanor
I moved to Teddington in 1940, aged 9 with my mum Esma and aunty Edie and my cousin Barry, who I always looked after because he was three years younger than me.
We’d lived in Camden but it was heavily bombed. I was at school on the day it was bombed to the ground, there was nothing left of it. We all got out and no one was killed thankfully, but the school was gone, and we couldn’t go anymore.
So they sent a mobile school, which was once a week and you’d do your English and arithmetic and they’d set you more homework to do for the rest of the week. But because we got bombed out so many times we had to move away.
My aunt Edie got a job at Lemon’s Bakery, in Teddington, which was a very big bakery on High Street - now the Fara Kids charity shop - and me and my mother followed her soon after - we went all the way from Camden to Teddington with all our belongings on the number 27 bus.
We found a little cottage on Watts Lane which was very run down but we made it as comfortable as we could…
