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I remember appearing in pantomimes and shows to raise money for the war effort. Finding the material for costumes was difficult and Mother used to cut up older clothes of hers and use curtain material and scour Bedford market for bargains. She was known to be very clever with her needle and made all our clothes. I was in one Christmas show in Bedford as a Christmas Tree fairy with six or eight other little girls. We danced what seemed like a long routine although afterwards I could not remember if I had danced the correct steps at all.

My parents would not let us listen to the radio and I was not really aware that there was a war going on, or if I did it did not mean anything. We were sheltered from anything unpleasant.
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A Policeman came to school and told us not to pick up anything we saw lying on the ground, it could be a bomb. He showed us pictures of pencils and pens that were bombs. That memory has stayed with me ever since and I often look at rubbish on the ground in public places and think ‘it could be a bomb’, although I know it is not.

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