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I was living in Hitchin in the war. I went to a catholic school.

German planes came over in the day and dropped silver paper. We children had to go out and pick it up. My husband thinks it was to deflect the radar of the planes coming over at night.

All the houses in Wilton Road had Jewish evacuees; my mother took some Jewish people in too. Nearby, Strathmore Avenue was full of tanks etc and lots of troops. We used to climb on the tanks and lorries.

When the bombing got bad we went to Scotland — near Glasgow.

This story has been submitted by Hitchin Museum on behalf of Mrs M Sole.

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