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Properties damaged during the Blitz as bombing raids cause havoc in London. Picture: PA Archive/PA I

Ilford heritage: Memories of the 1946 eclipse in Hainault

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RAF mates

How National Service turned me into a man

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A fireman enjoys a refreshing cup of tea as he works to clear rubble caused by the bombing of London

Heritage: When The Blitz was party of everyday life in east London

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VIPs ready to lay their poppy wreaths at the war memorial. Picture: Ellie Hoskins

A snapshot of England after the Second World War

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Fairlop Station in the 1930s. Photo: London Railways

Buried treasure between Fairlop and Hainault?

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A German Junkers JU88, similar to the one which crashed in Hainault during the Blitz. Photo: Wikimed

The time three German airmen crash landed in Hainault

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A fireman enjoys a refreshing cup of tea as he works to clear rubble caused by the bombing of London

The German bomb that almost cost me my eyesight in my right eye

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The Odeon cinema in Gants Hill stood for 69 years and played a large part in supporting the local co

Schoolboys’ lucky grenade escape at Fairlop

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Derek Hall (second from the left) with his brother and parents by the crater in his back garden in H

The night a German bomb fell in my back garden in Hainault

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London during the Blitz.

Life in Hainault during the Blitz

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