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My name is Dilys Grundy. I was born September 27th, 1927.
My brothers made an air raid shelter in the back garden. The benches were from coaches. So they put all that down, and a little lamp, and a little three bar fire. We did go in there, yes. We lived in Maes Y Dre in Wrexham then.
My friends heard that a German airplane had been shot down on the Cefn Road (in Wrexham), in a big field. So me and my friends went there. I picked up a big piece of the airplane- the chrome, with all the name on, and I took it home, with a piece of parachute. Then my uncle, that was my mother’s brother, had a little boy, Gerald, and I gave it to him. Well, I thought to myself afterwards, ‘I could have kept that and put it in the museum in Wrexham’. But I don’t know what happened to it in the end.

I remember my father went out, up by the side of the house, and of course, I went out to see what was happening, and you could hear an airplane going over, and I think that must have been the airplane that was shot down.

I remember everywhere was dark. We used to have torches going up through town and that. Blackout curtains. You could hear the warning going if the planes were going over.

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