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This story is taken from an interview with Violet Livingstone, and has been added to the site with their permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions. The interview was by Walter Love, and transcription was by Bruce Logan.
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I was scared to death, that’s what I remember about it!

[What did you think about VE day?]
Great!

I remember sitting in the scullery — it’s now the kitchen — sitting with the 4 children under the table, and me in beside them with a candle burning, hoping that if a bomb hit us I would be killed along with them, and they wouldn’t be killed alone. And my husband, he was going in and out, watching. We lived in Dunraven Gdns, there was a field in front of us. It was lit up with incendiary bombs.

The people used to come up past our door with children and prams when the sirens went, children and prams, thinking they were safe up in the plantation, the Planty as we called it. But there was a big gun up there, an Ack-ack gun, but the people thought they were safe.

My husband’s cousin’s wife’s brother flew with Guy Gibson, and was killed with him. He was a rear gunner. Jim Deering, we called him.

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