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Living In The Flat Over E J Kempton & Son.
A Memory of Leytonstone.
In the 1930’s to 1950.
My grandparents were mattress makers & had a small factory to the rear of the shop where they sold mattresses & bedding.
It was a family business & my mother worked with my grandmother. On sewing machines, making mattress covers. My father was foreman in the filling & finishing workshop
I was born in Epping in 1942 in my grandparents home.
We moved to the flat over the shop when I was about 6 or 7.
I went to Davis Lane school.
Around about that time, at night, there was a fire in the warehouse next to the workshop. I was carried downstairs by a policeman to safety.
I spent the rest of the night in the drapers a few shops down in a lovely cosy bed. They were so kind.
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