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Ros Thomas

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  1. I was born in Tooting in February 1939 and spent all the war in London, except the last six months, when I went to stay with my father, who worked for HMS Vernon in a secret shore establishment near Havant in Hampshire. I went to school in Streatham, then attended the Central School of Speech and Drama. I married a GP in 1962 and moved to Dulwich. In 1970 I entered Goldsmiths to read English, and then did an MA at Queen Mary College. After this I qualified as a nursery teacher, and a librarian and worked for Southwark Libraries. I completed a probationary teaching year in Tower Hamlets and then taught in nurseries and comprehensive schools in Essex and Suffolk. I became the first librarian of Otley College of Agriculture and Horticulture ( near Ipswich) in 1992 until I retired, and have since worked as an indexer and have written several books on agriculture and local history. I am currently living in a Suffolk village and attending classes in Anglo Saxon history at Sutton Hoo while completing a City and Guilds level 3 course in Machine Embroidery. I divorced in 1986, and have two sons and three grandchildren.
  2. Morrison shelters I was born in 1939, and in 1944 i was living in Tooting. My father was serving with HMS Vernon at a secret shore establishment near Havant, but I stayed in London with my mother. i had attended a catholic convent nursery school but it closed down when the bombing became intense. Eventually we had "doodlebugs" coming over every ten minutes so I lived for weeks in a Morrison shelter in our front room. I had to emege to go to the toilet, but otherwise I was told to stay in the cage for safety. My father came home on leave to find his small daughter living in a cage, so he took me back to his digs in Warblington, where I remained until the end of the war. When I returned to Tooting I remember the street party to celebrate. We had a huge bonfire in the middle of the rosd, and an effigy of Hitler was slung over the telegraph lines and then lowered onto the fire, like a modern Guy Fawkes. When I tell people that I once lived in a cage they look at me in disbelief, but perhaps I was not the only small child in this situation, having been too young to be evacuated at the start of the war.
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