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I heard war first on 3 September. I was 10 and we sat round the radio. I lived in Bristol.

I remember going down to the Anderson shelter at the bottom of the garden and to this day, if I smell candles, I think of the shelter.

We picked up shrapnel the following morning.

All the men were on fire watch during the raids. They had stirrup pumps in case there were incendiary bombs.

We had cold liver oil and roshehip syrup - it was supposed to do us good.

I was at school and we had practices to see how quickly we could run from school to home. They took all the iron railings for the war effort.

We went on the train with our cardboard boxes and gas masks. We could hear the planes and bombs and saw craters left by bombs. The I was evacuated to Torquay.

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