Fay Anderson remembers needing a passport to go to the island of Coll

One of the things that happened when our family was visiting the Isle of Coll, well into the war - it would be nineteen - let me think back - forty-two? And there we were, coming up on the all-night train from Buchanan Street in Glasgow - a very exciting thing for small children - and you got off in Oban at six o'clock in the morning to catch the Lochearn to the islands, and there was a big man there this time. And we had to have passports! They wouldn't let us leave Oban without a passport. And my father, who'd been born and brought up in the islands -

Duncan MacInnes: I was on the Lochearn, aye.

- was absolutely furious. 'I'm going to see my mother and I've never needed a passport for that!' he said. So anyway, we had to have our passports and this would be in case any of us was a German spy or a fifth columnist, as they called them.