Elizabeth MacInnes describes the shelter accommodation in her school

Well, I was brought up in, as I say, in Fife and my mother was, had the school in North Fife, and it was a one, well, it was a two-teacher school, so it was a small one. And the schoolhouse and the school itself had walls about three feet thick - the old-fashioned type of cottage building - which made excellent shelter accommodation. We didn't need to have a shelter. What we did was, we went out of the school, round the playground, down underneath what we called the 'dunny' and it was a store room which was our shelter. Eventually, it became a sort of dining place for the school because my mother managed to get them to produce school meals and we got on all right in the school. It was good.