What games did children play during the war?
Evelyn: Skipping; walking on home-made stilts – which was two tin cans wi a bit of string, that’s a’; kick the can; beddies or hopscotch to you; two teams; One team went and hid but they used to go a long way. Well I came from Froghall doon tae Sunnybank swings. So we used t’ leave marks on the road and then one went back and told the leader of the other team and a rough idea of where we were and they had to try and follow the clues that we had left to catch us. It was good fun; y’d be oot for hours.

Sheila: I was involved in dressing up and raisin funds for the hospital an that.

How did you get news about the war?
Sheila: It was the radio. Mostly it was oor parents who let us know

Evelyn: My brother being a prisoner in Poland – they were allowed letters home but they were all censored and the bits they weren’t allowed to tell you the German captors scored out so you couldn’t really see what was going on – they couldn’t really tell you. But a lady across the road, her son was in the same camp as my brother and if my mother got a letter she used to run over and say,” What did he say? What did he say?” And if she got a letter my mother used to run over and ask her coz that was the only information they had about the family when they were away

Do you think there will be another world war?
Sheila: Hopefully not. Don’t want that. It’ll be just somebody pressing a button now – we’d a be cooked. Only the chosen few would be chosen to go to these places

Did you have any love in the war?
Evelyn: Just the love of our parents at that age I’m afraid!
Sheila: O just the boy next door! Come on now! Y fancied him!