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I remember being woken during the night either during or just after an air raid and being told we had to lock the house up and leave as an unexploded land mine had landed on the Ainthorpe Grove playing fields and it had not detonated because it had landed in a very muddy area — so it must have been winter time. Buses were laid on to transport us into town where we could get further buses to take us to stay temporarily with friends or relatives who were out of the area. We had relatives in Beverley and I remember standing in a queue outside the Regal cinema waiting for a bus to Beverley with my parents and my sister, who would have been 3 or 4 years old and watching the Hammonds store burning just across the road and chaos reigning as buses were coming and going trying to get people out of the town. We eventually got a bus to Beverley and stayed with an aunt for about three days until it was safe to return to our own house. I don’t recall being frightened, just fascinated by it all.

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