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All through the war, every Sunday I listened to Vera Lynn on the wireless. Messages were read out from servicemen. I was married with two little girls. My husband was in the navy. He was killed in 1942.

I lived about 5 miles from Manchester and I remember seeing Manchester blaze from the bombs. When my mothers house was bombed there were no casualties but she had no electricity. She had to walk three miles to my house to cook her dinner.

I remember hearing the “doodle bug “bombs, waiting to hear where they would drop. We had a Morrison shelter in the kitchen.
At school, children were given Horlicks tablets and orange juice.

I made the children “Siren suits out of old coats — they thought they were the “bee’s knees” and I remember the sponge cake I used to make with liquid paraffin — delicious!

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