大象传媒

This story was submitted to the People鈥檚 War site by Sarah Jones on behalf of Sheila King and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.

In 1941 a car light was left on during the black outs and a plane came over and dropped a bomb on Gretna. There were an awful lot of local people killed and many of the children at school lost their fathers.

My father was supposed to be at a masonic meeting at Gretna but had just started a new job at ICI, and fortunately wasn't allowed time off work to attend.

The following morning though the local people thought my father would have been killed and couldn't look at my mother when she opened the door to pick up the milk delivery.

I also remember that my grandmother had an evacuee from London, a little boy. It's very rural round here you see so people were evacuated here. He was older than me and taught me to play piano. He stuck little stickers on to teach me the letters so that I could play.

漏 Copyright of content contributed to this Archive rests with the author. Find out how you can use this.