the whole of dockland was alight and you could see from the sky, the whole sky was red.rth because that was the only really effective shelter you could find. i think we all, really, were terrified. so, i knew what bombing was like — to be at the other end of the bombing, you know? the recipient of it. so, no, i — for me, war is something that should be avoided at all costs. we were told that there was going — that there would be an official photographer coming down to the tunnels, so i had a — somebody i knew in the tunnels, a young sailor, and i asked him if i could borrow his white top, you know, with the navy beading across. i'm now sure that if it were known by the officers that this is what i planned to do, it would have been frowned upon very definitely. but i went ahead — nobody knew — and so, my photograph exists of a wren hat in — at a rather perky angle and a white top that i shouldn't have been wearing. king george vi came down to visit us all in the fort. he toured a lot of the tunnels. i think there was a lift for vips — don't think he had to travel those 35