大象传媒

I am willing to have my story entered onto the People's War website and agree to abide by the House Rules.

I was born in Plymouth in 1940. Our house was in James Street, Devonport which runs down beside the Dockyard wall.

As you can imagine living beside the yard was considered very dangerous and I remember aged 3 and 4 my mother either running to the air raid shelter with me in her arms; or if it was in the middle of the night taking me under the stairs when the sirens went off.

When we had suffered a bad air raid one night, my mother's friend who lived in the house next door decided she could stand it no longer and took her two children off to Cornwall. She pleaded with my mother to go with them but because my father was stationed in Plymouth, working the searchlights for the army, mum did not want to go. Mum heard a few weeks later that bombs discarded when the Gewrmans were leaving their targets hit the cottage they had evacuated to and they were all killed. Their house and ours were still intact after the war. FATE?

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