´óÏó´«Ã½

I was 10 when the war started. We had to walk everywhere. We had rations and we had to make everything go a long way. I was very very frightened I didn’t like the war at all. I did go to school it was Tinkers Farm.

I didn’t get evacuated, no. I should have been going to Canada with my aunt but the boat went down with all the children on, so I didn’t go.

We used to have to carry a gas mask around with us, and we used to have a lot of fun because we used to make covers to go over our gas masks, you know — little girls like pretty things.

We went without a lot of things, and then — air raids, every night we used to have to go down to the shelter and sleep in the garden and wait for the bombs, so we could go back into the house.

My father was in the Army and my mother worked cleaning trams. I used to have to look after my little brother while my mother went to work. We used to act plays in the back garden, just to pass the time.

© Copyright of content contributed to this Archive rests with the author. Find out how you can use this.