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To: maceng2 who wrote (90780)	10/27/2002 10:23:01 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 116782

G, Well, our house was direct hit, part of a row of attached houses(townhouses) and after the war the block rebuilt as a highrise, since all the house owners never got anything from insurance and the mortgage holder took over most of them and bought the owned ones as part of the general rebuild after WW2. We left in 1948, just after the currency devualtion(major bummer...pound went from $4.80 to $2.80 and you could only expatriate 1000 pounds per year). Dad had over 300,000 pounds as cash in safety deposit boxes/matresses, so we were OK, he was able to get it out in a furniture he shipped out. He opened a pound account and used it to buy goods to import to Canada which he sold here, making $$ and exchanging the funds at the same time. He retired at 55 and had a reasonably long life of contented retirement until he died at 74. Mother is a nursing home at 87 and fragile at this time. bill