An illustration for Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine.
Alan Crosby recalls how, in the 1960s, they still tested air-raid sirens every month or so, and remembers how he was “playing in the garden one summer day, when the siren sounded - an eerie, shrill, rising wail. My mother, who was a girl in Manchester during the war years, instinctively froze and for a few seconds (I learned much later) tried desperately to remember where the air raid shelter was”.