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1925-1947: childhood

She was born "Margaret Hilda Roberts" in Grantham, a small town in eastern England, on 13 October 1925. Her parents, Alf and Beatrice Roberts, ran a grocery and she lived over the shop, sometimes helping behind the counter.

She had an older sister called Muriel, but no brothers or other close family.

When she was born the town was still recovering from the Great War of 1914-18. There were fewer children than usual because so many men had been away fighting, and some of them were killed.

As she grew older people began to be worried there would be another war. Unfortunately they were right.

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The Second World War broke out in 1939 when she was 14 and lasted till 1945 when she was 20.

Also during her childhood lots of people had no jobs and had very little money. The Roberts family was luckier than most and did baking for people who were unwell or didn't have enough to eat, which people from their church took round.

They went to services together twice every Sun