- Contributed by
- CSV Media NI
- People in story:
- Maisie Naylor
- Location of story:
- Belfast, N Ireland
- Background to story:
- Civilian
- Article ID:
- A8679054
- Contributed on:
- 20 January 2006
This story is taken from an interview with Maisie Naylor, and has been added to the site with their permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions. The interview was by Walter Love, and transcription was by Bruce Logan.
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We were in the Air-raid shelter, and the bombs were dropping. It was my 21st birthday, or the day before, and I’d got a pair of Blue suede shoes which were very hard to get. You’d have coupons, never mind the money. And we were there hours, and people wanted to spend a penny. And there was no toilets, no seats. They decided the women could go down — it was pitch black, nobody could have seen you anyway. And I thought, “my feet are lovely and warm” — somebody had peed over my blue suede shoes!
[You got a special new coat during the war, didn’t you?]
It was made like an officer’s coat, with the pockets sitting out and the double-breasted buttons and all. It was really in style then.
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