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This story was told to Christine Barker at the VE Celebrations in Beverley in 2005
by Pauline

I was a four year old in the war. I haven’t got a lot of my own memories of the war apart from the noise of the sirens and the blackout curtains everywhere. I do remember my Mickey Mouse gas mask, it was pink and blue they’d obviously made them specially for children I remember it very clearly — but then I still had it after the war, they didn’t collect them up very quickly — I don’t expect it was high priority.
My father was away, I hardly knew him when I was young, he went into the army when it was the war but then stayed in for 26 years so he must have liked it!
We stayed in Hull throughout the war, my mum’s sister was evacuated to Thorne and didn’t have a happy experience so we stayed put, it didn’t seem dangerous to me.

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