The streets were a toddler's wonderland of rubble, smashed window frames, half-demolished air-raid shelters. |
When World War Two broke out Jack was called up and Dorothy took over the round and was also an air-raid warden one day a week. |
No noise in the sky, but a wail of sirens constantly around the park, so steady that they sounded like air-raid alarms in the London blitz. |
After being bundled into the air-raid shelter, we could hear the drone of aircraft passing over-head, on their way to bomb Belfast ship-yards. |
Living in the tobacconists on Dane Street owned by his parents, Amy and Fred, he would often be woken by the wail of the air-raid sirens. |
The end of the working day in the tea garden is marked by the wail of an air-raid siren. |