- Contributed by听
- gmractiondesk
- People in story:听
- Thelma Workmaster, mother Margaret & brother Denis
- Location of story:听
- Northenden Manchester
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A4500622
- Contributed on:听
- 20 July 2005
This story has been submitted to the Peoples War website by Peter Quinn for GMR Action Desk on behalf of Thelma Workmaster and has been added with her permission. The author is fully aware of the site's terms and conditions.
In 1941 the council erected an Anderson shelter in our back garden. If the sirens went the ARP warden had to get my brother and myself out of bed and into the shelter because my mum worked at night. The shelter was horrible - cold, dark, smelly and covered in condensation with lots of creepy crawlies from the garden. It smelt of the strong bleach that my mum had put down to kill the insects. I wss nine years old and Denis was five and we had to sit with a candle in this smelly dark cavern until my mum came home. It was very frightening but we just accepted it as part of our lives.
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