Gas masks from a house in Queslett Road

About 1937/8 I went to the primary school, I always remembered it as Bandywood school now I think it must have been Kingsland. A small island was outside on which a clump of trees grew and in spring lots of daffodils. On each November 11th at 11.00am we all stood in silence in our classroom. Just a year later we collected our gas masks from a house in Queslett Rd. A queue formed, I was so envious of my sister she got a Mickey Mouse one, I got a grown up one. Summer of 1939 was lovely, My mom whistled South of the Border constantly and to be told ‘a whistling woman and a crowing hen are no good to God or men’.. Lovely countryside then, in the lane to Barr Beacon Harebells and Poppies grew in the lane to Barr Beacon.