Now put your books down…and get your gas masks out. Quietly. Now take them carefully out of their boxes - no, no, Isobel, don't drag at it…you show her how to do it, Margaret, will you.

Everyday you would have to have gas mask on you just in case there was a bombing. So everywhere we went we had a gas mask box with us ... an A2 collage all about ww2 . This morning we meat ...

I was eight years old when WW2 broke out ... we school children were issued with gas masks. We carried them,like everybody did, round our necks in a box. The thing I remember most vividly was ...