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I was 10 years old and attending Napier Hall Street School in Maryhill when war broke out in 1939. One day we heard a plane coming over and guns firing and we were told to get under the desks. We survived unscathed but bullet holes were left in the wall of Waddles sausage factory in North Woodside Road.

A bomb was dropped on Queen Margaret Drive which damaged the bridge and blew part of a building away in Wilton Street. Part of the floor was left behind with a piano on it which was a very strange sight. We used to think it would be great to get up to the third storey of the devastated building and play the piano. We used to collect shrapnel as children and everyone would compete to find the biggest piece!

During air raids we'd go to underground shelters on North Woodside Road from where we'd watch planes and searchlights sweeping the night sky. You had to go to the shelter early to avoid long queues.

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