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This story is taken from an interview with Adela Tinsley, and has been added to the site with their permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions. The transcription was by Bruce Logan.
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My brother was in the RN. He didn’t get home for 2 years. He met friends in the navy and the mothers all used to meet up. They always said they’d have a party when they all came here. They arrived on the Tuesday of the Blitz and 1 the boys’ mother and sister were killed that day. Another one was to be married and he didn’t want to go back to the war. He was killed and never got married.

I had an aunt who was an invalid and couldn’t leave the house because she had to lie on planks. She could only move her hands. My chum’s father stayed with her and promised not to leave her, while a whole street was evacuated, Sugarfield street in the Shankill. Bombs went off and some houses were wrecked, some damaged, but she was safe.

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