I spent all the war years at school in the Cotswolds. I remember them as being a very happy period of my life with few sad or frightening times. There was a strong community spirit and everyone seemed to work together with one aim in mind and we lived quite happily with few material goods and none of the benefits of todays technology. It was such an impressionable time of my life and I feel I have been influenced by it every since. I went on to become a teacher and am now back in the area were I spent these war years and have a strong interest in that awful period of our history and also the repercussions following the peace.

