Avril Watt was staying
with her grandmother when Leith was bombed
But
there was one time, I was at my grandmother's in Edinburgh.
Do you know where Leith is? Big docks, just outside Edinburgh,
where all the ships would come in and out with the troops
and with food for us. And I was down there at my grandmother's
when Leith was bombed. And as kids you thought this was
absolutely wonderful, because all the searchlights would
go up like that and they would cross, and you would see
a German plane in the middle of that cross, lit up. Now,
you'd hear all the guns and you'd see all the tracers
going up to hit, and we thought this was absolutely wonderful
because, as children, it was exciting. You didn't think
somebody was going to get killed. It was big lights and
guns and it was like fireworks.