- Contributed by听
- gmractiondesk
- People in story:听
- Mary Huggins, Vera Whelpton, Mrs Grimes (our mother)
- Location of story:听
- Moss Side, Manchester
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A3991232
- Contributed on:听
- 03 May 2005
I can remember going to school with a gas mask on - I was only about 5 years old.
We can remember our mother taking us into air raid shelters. They were very small ones in our own back yard. Our mother used to have sugar, tea and candles in there for emergencies.
She used to sit on a chair whilst we all went to sleep. We each had a place to sleep in an ottaman box, one on the lid, and the other one, on a wicker chair at the end.
We used to pick up shrapnel in the street.
Dad used to stay at the beginning of the entry. He was an ARP man (air raid patrol).
At schools we had to go on the stair case because it was stone and couldn't get bombed.
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