My First Home ; Quentin Blake, 71, Is Best Known for Illustrating Roald Dahl's Children's Books. He has Also Written Books of His Own. He Tells Mark Anstead About Growing Up in His Childhood Home in Wartime Sidcup, South-East London

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I was born in a semidetached three-bedroom house in Sidcup and lived there until I went to study at Cambridge. It was a very typical suburban house of the time, with small bay windows and fake- looking halftimbering on the front.

We had a moderate garden with apple trees in it and a railway embankment at the bottom. I used to watch horsedrawn carts come up to the track and load coal into the trains.

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My First Home ; Quentin Blake, 71, Is Best Known for Illustrating Roald Dahl's Children's Books. He has Also Written Books of His Own. He Tells Mark Anstead About Growing Up in His Childhood Home in Wartime Sidcup, South-East London

My brother Ken was 11 years older than me and I can't remember playing with him muc...

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