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I used to work in a grocery shop in Lincoln called George Masons, they had multiple grocery stores. As the men who worked in the shop were ‘called up’ the girls got promoted, and eventually I was placed in charge of the grocery counter looking after the placing of orders from our suppliers. At that time people knew that war was inevitable. I remember there was a black out the night before war was declared and we were sitting in a café and there were young people out on the street. It was pitch dark and you would have thought the young people were celebrating something, the way they were singing and looking forward to war. Inside the café there was an older man who said that the young ones didn’t know what they were doing. He told us of the horrors he had experienced during the First World War.

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