Mary Maclean reflects on how things were for a Skye family living in Glasgow

Could you tell me where you were when World War 2 broke out and what were you doing there?

Well, I was in school. I was a nine-year-old - that tells you how old I am - when war broke out. My mother and father, both Skye, came from Skye, but my father worked as a carpenter in the shipyards, so I went to school in Glasgow at the time. And I can well remember the day that war broke out because there was a buzz about the place. Everybody was just listening to the news and expecting to hear this announcement. And when it came, it was very, it upset so many people because they knew that their families and their, the menfolk would be affected. So I can remember - we stayed in a flat in Dumbarton Road, in the main Dumbarton Road - and I can remember watching some of the Territorial soldiers - they're part-time soldiers - marching and probably off to their training camp in preparation for going to war, unfortunately.