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Born 1920. When the Germans started to invade the continental countries then we began to realise that this was serious. I will always remember the first bomb that was dropped on Salford. It landed in Camp St on Salford Library. I was in the shelter at the time. We lived at 530 Great Cheetham St and it was a shelter at the back of the house. We got the repercussions from the bomb. We knew it was close because it was louder than the other bombs. We went out and someone said it had fallen near Camp St. So we went down to Camp St and saw the Library had been hit.
There was a bomb I think in St James’ Rd that hit a shelter and quite a few people were killed. This was at the beginning of the war.
I was working at Mandlebergs in Pendleton making barrage balloons and Mandlebergs was hit by a bomb and one man killed. This was during the night. We went in the next day to help clear up. My sister Nora was the firm’s nurse and she used to wear a nurse’s uniform. She was the first to go in and she found this man who had died. That was quite a shock for her.

I was called up in 1940.

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