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Maurice Rolph Maurice Rolph
experience / relation to hidden war space: Lived in Cambridge during World War II - see photograph
year of birth: October 1936
period covered in interview: 1940-42
place: Histon Road / Harvey Goodwin Avenue, Cambridge
date of interview: 15 September 2007

Maurice Rolph was three years old when the war started. He lived with his parents and elder sister on Histon Road and went to St Luke's Infants and Juniors then Chesterton Secondary Modern.

He remembers an air raid shelter in his back garden [see photograph] as well as one at St Luke's. In addition to the interview here, Maurice was interviewed about wartime rationing for Cambridge 209 Radio by one of her volunteers, for her food and drink programme, which was broadcast on 26th January 2008.
 
   
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