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We lived in the village of Bathford, about 4 miles from the city of Bath, on the hill where ammunition was stored underground at Monkton Farleigh. There was a railway line linking to the main line, and ammunition was transported by cable car over ground and by train underground to a specially constructed platform at the 'black steps' in Bathford. I was walking through the fields on the way home from swimming in the Bye Brook with two of my younger sisters, when a German plane came out of the sky flying low towards us. It started to fire at us with machine guns so we lay flat on the ground for a moment, terrified, but then ran for the hedge. We stayed there for about ten minutes, hearts pounding. When the plane seemed to have gone away we went home. Our parents were astonished that this had happened to us but relieved that we were safe.

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