I'm a girl from East Ham.

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• Vera Lynn:

  I used to go from place to place by tram. A shilling would take you all around London and the subur

• Vera Lynn:

  They didn't like my voice at school.

• Vera Lynn:

  Singing in the jungle was very hot and very sticky, which was a bit hard going. I had a little pian

• Vera Lynn:

  When I was a toddler, I fell ill with diphtheritic croup and was taken to an isolation unit. One of

• Vera Lynn:

  Mum worked for a London dressmaker before she married. When she was forced to give up work after he

• Vera Lynn:

  Dad, who worked as a plumber, was a quiet and undemanding man who liked to laugh - and he was a ver

• Vera Lynn:

  Perhaps it is no surprise I became an entertainer because many of my relatives were natural perform

• Vera Lynn:

  I was born with a passion for music.

• Vera Lynn:

  I have always managed to combine my family life and my career, but there came a point when I had to

• Vera Lynn:

  In 1939, a newspaper ran a competition for the first load of boys off to war to pick their favourit