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This story was submitted to the Peoples War site by Neoneill O’Neil.
I was born in a circuit street in Scotland Road. I was born in 1936 and we moved out in 1939 to Hyton in a new estate. We lived in Rose Bank Road when the war was declared. We were very close to the prisoners of war camp ‘Wolf’ We could get right up to the wire mesh and sit and talk to them even tough we could not understand them because the were speaking German.
When we would go to bed we would hear the sirens and then we had to get into the air raid shelters with its cold walls, single beds and a single oil lamp.
I can remember the shortages that meant our Christmases were small; we would only get a small gift like a sewing kit, a storybook, gloves and maybe some fruit.
I went to visit my aunt who lived very close to Scotland Road and her house was still standing at the end of the war.

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